https://privacyindesign.com/posts/Recent content in Writing on Privacy In DesignHugoen-usSun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://privacyindesign.com/posts/no-backend-is-the-foundation/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://privacyindesign.com/posts/no-backend-is-the-foundation/<p>Most privacy claims are about restraint: we <em>could</em> collect this, but we choose not to. That framing is worth distrusting, because a choice can be revisited the moment the incentives change. The stronger version is structural — there is no collected information, so there is nothing to revisit.</p> <p>Four apps in, here is what that has actually meant.</p> <h2 id="it-removes-the-easiest-answer-to-every-hard-problem">It removes the easiest answer to every hard problem</h2> <p>&ldquo;Sync it through our backend&rdquo; solves an enormous number of design problems at once. Take it away and each one comes back individually.</p>