Privacy
Family material should be treated as unusually sensitive, not ordinary social content.
Consent
Who may see, change, process or release content must be explicit and versioned.
Original preservation
Original media should not silently disappear behind edited or generated content.
Provenance
Record who created something, when, what changed and what technology touched it.
AI disclosure
Synthetic or assisted output should be clearly distinguishable from recorded source material.
Trusted people
Designated people can support continuity according to the creator’s rules.
Export & deletion
Content should not be held hostage, but long-term hosted retention must be explicitly funded.
Children
Age, consent, safeguarding and dependency risks need dedicated design — not assumptions borrowed from adult SaaS.
MIA Guardian
A future safety and policy layer, never advertised as infallible.
What happens if MIA stops existing?
The honest answer is that long-term continuity is still an R&D problem until a funded and legally reviewed mechanism exists. MIA will not promise “forever storage” or “lifetime storage” without a real mechanism underneath those words.
Creation is a subscription. Long-term preservation is a funded commitment.
The product research programme is evaluating archive periods, storage assumptions, media migration, encrypted export, succession, escrow and open standards.