Maurice Sikkink

I’m the founder of Yogile, a private photo and video storage and sharing platform that has been operating for more than 15 years. I’m also a software engineer and longtime SaaS founder, so I tend to approach technology questions from both a product and technical perspective. Building a service that people trust with years of personal photographs has shaped how I think about privacy. At Yogile, we deliberately do not scan customers’ private photo libraries with AI or use their photos to train AI models. We also let people contribute to shared albums without requiring them to create an account. I’m particularly interested in digital privacy, AI and personal data, consumer technology, cloud storage, photo sharing, SaaS, product development, cybersecurity, data minimization and the trade-...