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#49
Originally Posted by billranton View Post
I like the look of the OS and the device, but I'm not a fan of handing over my data to some internet service, both for privacy reasons but more broadly because I don't like the stuff I own to depend on services I don't have any control over. I prefer to host my own server at home and sync with that. Do you plan to support that configuration in the future?

Also, your OS seems to bear a resemblance to the Octonauts' OS. Could we consider this an early demo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fddw6Zzc9MM&t=149
Heh, nice reference. I posted the Octonauts video to the team.

In terms of privacy, one of our founders is the founder of the largest security company in the Nordics, and a well known expert in privacy and security. Even Mikko Hyppönen has been tweeting about Solu. Reason? We are very conscious of that and our business model is such that we have zero interest in selling any of your data. Quite the opposite. We are aiming to host the data in Finnish data centres, where there are —*at least for the moment — no data sharing agreements with the US (unlike e.g. Sweden and most of Western Europe). We are also building preparations for using convergent encryption on the device so that content can be shared with the team members, but everyone has their own key. That means everything gets encrypted when it goes up to us in a manner that even we do not know what data is there.

You will be able to export the raw data from our system, or select portions of it, though Solu is very much built around using our service for interaction and collaboration.
 

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