Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
Ente: Private by Design
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It's rare these days to find a well-designed and useful application that was made to be private from the get-go. Too many apps today view your personal data as a cash cow to be mercilessly milked, claiming to value your privacy when they really value the extra revenue they can make off of your private data. When I find useful apps that are private by design, especially ones that can replace more popular apps that harvest our data, I like to call attention to them: in this case, Ente Photos. Today I'll ask the founder and CEO why privacy is important to him and how it influenced his design approach.
Interview Notes
Ente Photo: https://ente.io/
Ente Auth: https://ente.io/auth/
Ente’s Machine Learning: https://ente.io/ml/
Ken Thompon’s lecture on trust: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210
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Table of Contents
0:00:00: Intro
0:04:08: interview terminology
0:06:44: Why did you start Ente and why do you care about privacy?
0:15:23: Why should we trust Ente with our private data?
0:20:14: What private information does Ente collect?
0:25:12: How hard is it for 3rd party apps to integrate with the OS?
0:29:39: Is Ente more private than Apple Photos with ADP enabled?
0:31:40: How hard is it to migrate from Google or Apple Photos to Ente?
0:34:30: Is facial recognition metadata in a standard, portable format?
0:35:51: How hard is it to export photos from Ente?
0:37:57: Does Ente Auth allow for easy export and backup?
0:39:28: How do you backup your Ente photos?
0:41:12: How much of Ente's AI photo processing is purely on-device?
0:45:51: How do you vet third party software libraries for privacy?
0:49:07: What data could Ente give, if required, to law enforcement?
0:52:43: How can we pass on our legacy of memories to our kids?
0:54:55: What's next for Ente?
0:59:43: Interview wrap-up
1:00:56: Patron podcast preview
1:01:36: Looking ahead