Privacy as a Human Right: Not a Feature We Added Later
Privacy for people with disabilities is a baseline safety requirement. An injured worker whose symptom logs are accessible to their employer. A person with HIV whose health data surfaces in an insurance database. A disabled employee whose accommodation requests are on company-controlled infrastructure. These are documented realities, not hypotheticals. 3mpwrApp was built knowing this history. Our privacy architecture - local-first, encrypted, no back door, explicit user control over sync - is not a technical accomplishment. It is a political commitment to the people we serve. We include this in our philosophy documentation because privacy decisions made at the architecture level cannot be undone by a future policy change. The commitment is structural to the codebase. —
The Principles
- Disability data is uniquely dangerous: it can affect employment, insurance, housing, and custody
- Many disability apps monetize user data - 3mpwrApp never has and never will
- Local-first architecture is a political decision, not just a technical implementation
- Surveillance of disabled people has been systematically weaponized by insurance companies
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Privacy protection is an accessibility feature specifically for people in adversarial systems
In Action
- An insurer cannot demand data that does not exist on a server we control
- Encrypted local storage means your medical history is not exposed by a third-party data breach
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You export and delete everything you’ve ever stored - your data has no home here but your device
Why It Matters
- For disabled people in active legal claims, privacy is not a preference - it is self-defense
- Building privacy-first is slower and more expensive; we chose it deliberately and structurally
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When we say “your data never leaves without consent” we mean it architecturally - not as a policy
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