Photo privacy5 min read•
How to store private photos without AI scanning
Photo libraries are some of the most analysed content on the modern cloud. Here is how to keep family and personal photos out of that pipeline.
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Three private surfaces. Same zero-knowledge architecture.
Why photos are different Photo libraries are dense with personal information: faces, locations, dates, medical situations, children, homes. Modern cloud photo services analyse this content to build search, suggestions, memories and recommendations. That analysis is useful, and it requires server-side access to plaintext.
What "private photo storage" should mean - Photos are encrypted on the device before upload. - The provider has no decryption path. - No face detection, no location indexing, no automated tagging on the server. - Sharing uses recipient-keyed envelopes, not public URLs.
A reasonable setup - Keep a general-purpose photo cloud for casual, share-friendly photos. - Use a zero-knowledge vault for the photos you would not want scanned, indexed, or surfaced in suggestions: family photos, medical imagery, identity documents, sensitive moments.
How DRIVUNO handles photos Photos are treated like any other file: encrypted before upload, stored as ciphertext, never analysed on our side. There is no thumbnail server, no face detector, no location index running on our infrastructure.
The problem with the default Every major photo cloud now feeds your library into automated systems: face recognition, scene classification, content matching, and — increasingly — model training. The intent varies; the capability is identical. Your photos are readable by a pipeline you did not design.
What changes with DRIVUNO Photos are encrypted with XChaCha20-Poly1305 in your browser before upload. The server stores opaque bytes. There is no thumbnail pipeline server-side, no face index, no automated content match. Your gallery exists for you and the people you explicitly share with.
Practical advice For day-to-day phone photos most people don't care. For medical photos, family photos of minors, anything that has ever caused an account suspension elsewhere, anything you genuinely consider private — that is what zero-knowledge storage is for.
Try it in one click.
Three private surfaces. Same zero-knowledge architecture.