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You are being fiat farmed by big tech.

Basically, we've legally been advised by our lawyers that we had to update the policy for specific different regions (Switzerland, Europe, California) and because we've reached a critical mass of people, and to cover our bases for fundraising. As part of this, we had to be more specific about all the data that lives on our servers is. We never intended to imply this kind of data gets used for any other purpose than error logging and loading and syncing the content in your library. Nor will it ever be used for any other purpose.

If you compare it with the prior policy, you will see they are identical on this point. It's inconvenient that the standardized nature of these policies has implications other than what I'm describing, but it's very expensive to change and we have to be judicious about where we direct our resources. When the time is right, I'm sure we will make all these distinctions more explicit. Again, I'm not a lawyer, but I can assure you that as a technical fact, and in terms of the 13 people who work at this company, there isn't any intent or implementation that behaves the way you're concerned about.

A last statement about encryption since you also mention it: the data is not encrypted at rest, so that we can process it for title-generation, length, PDF generation and so on, and so backups and syncs are easy. Every piece of data is e2e encrypted in the same way Signal messages and so on are: over https, the same way your banking information is protected. To encrypt at rest is a major technical undertaking we do intend to get to eventually, and we have put in work there, but it's going to take more time. If you're curious, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

Replying to Avatar vinney...axkl

What the fuck nostr:npub1a00wj229auzjswlq4s77y4u8eqdx5k9ppatgl8rtv8va65f6mwksum9q3h ? Are you out of your minds? If you're going to "collect my reading activity and personal notes", at least end-to-end encrypt them and don't harvest them for targeted advertising.

There is absolutely no way I'll be continuing to use you "Reader" software in this context, and you can be sure that if you release a custom OS that has this level of privacy invasion I will not be using it. If that means I can't use the hardware either, then so be it.

This is coming from someone who said the hardware is completely revolutionary and life-changing.

https://support.daylightcomputer.com/privacy-policy-march-2025#block-1850b673e0bf80798d1ceaa41d9030d4

> Personal information we collect:

> ...Your reading materials, links, and other content you choose to save in the Service, and any notes added to saved documents.

> Automatic collection. As you navigate the Service, our communications, and other online services, we, our service providers and advertising partners may automatically collect identifiable information about you, your computer or device, and your browsing actions and use patterns, such as:

> Page views, pen strokes, reading history, search terms, what videos and other content you view, how long you spent on a page, the website you visited before browsing to the Service, navigation paths between pages, information about your activity on a page

> We, our service providers, and third party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

> Direct marketing

> Targeted advertising

Hi nostr:nprofile1qy0hwue69uhngve5xpkkz6tw9ej82cmtv3h8xtn0wfnn5dpcxsuz7q22waehxw309um8yemhvd6xxdfn09e8qmt4wac8smehdemngdp5ddshzcfjdpuksdm00yekc7r8xahhxdr2d358ja3jw9nxgmrkw9jzummwd9hkuw358qmrjtcqyqh04fc4hw6xm4d7dd7634msqfndz9n5hyfms9u2mk6u9e3anpenzccjrdl , this is Drew, head of software at Daylight. Just want to clear up some misconceptions here.

Everything in Reader *IS* end-to-end encrypted, and we do not, and will never, sell any such data to any third party. We have crash logs and things of this kind that are only used for internal development. Another example is that, just physically, our servers have to detect that your tablet is trying to update. In practice we collect less data than any device you have likely ever owned, and will continue to make things more and more paranoiacally secure and private to the greatest extent we can.

If anyone has questions about what we do, how it compares with other devices, and so on, feel free to message.

I'll also add that we openly encourage you to use the device however you wish and even help with things like custom ROMs and so on, through the https://www.daylighthacker.wiki.

In my non-expert, non-legal opinion, the policy update doesn't substantially change anything from the previous version, but does add more detail that our lawyers have told us we need. Overall it's fairly standard. As our tech improves and the business grows, we will be able to afford more specificity and bespokeness in these kinds of documents. For now it's good that the notice we sent is sparking a discussion.

Long-term, a totally custom operating system that isn't based on Android, and incorporates things like homomorphic encryption at rest and so on is still the goal, but it will take time to get there.

Here are some suggestions:

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Replying to Avatar I3_I2_I_Z

About time 🫂 thanks for your patience.

what's to come in the year ahead:

what's to come in the year ahead:

• Scaling production to shorten ship times

• Making the DC-1 consistently available (moving away from deposits)

• Launching more of our own accessories

• Releasing Sol:OS 1.0

• And so much more more !

stay tuned for the latest updates 🌞

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I'll be first in line to buy one

I've been able to keep away from them, but was in a country recently and unable to pay for parking my car without downloading an app.

Please keep me updated when a 'smartphone' with QR reading, LN paying etc is possible 😉 @jack

Yes. Depends on our success with the tablet. Things are looking good ☀️

Latest podcast with “The Wellness Mama” goes into why the Daylight is a better option for kids.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4VuToVbUXv07Mf6eyuILMH?si=2_cbWMp4Ta6V33ipVU1uDg

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Replying to Avatar no big deal

nostr:nprofile1qqswhhhf99z77pfg80s2c00z27rusxn2tzss7450n34krkwa2yadhtgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcc8gdve GM. Do you plan on adding shippment to Japan at any point? Preordered to later find out you don't ship here.

Bummer! And yes we want to ship worldwide!