2019 is the year to take back your privacy! — If 2018 was the year of “fake news” and data hacks. Then, 2019 is going to be the year that we take back our privacy. Here at Dust, we believe that your voice has power, and only YOU should control it. We want our users to speak freely — free…

This past year everyone started paying attention — I began this blog in July of this year with one hope in mind: To help further spread awareness to the issue of data privacy. …

All the times a data hack ruined a person’s life — I thought this would be harder. On second thought, let me rephrase that: I was hoping this would be harder. I thought it would take a lot of digging to uncover stories about people whose privacy had been jeopardized in a way that changed the course of theirs and their…

Or do we need to recalibrate how we assess Facebook’s success — It’s no secret that we live in a time of two America’s. We subscribe to different information, brought to us by different channels for news, based on two completely different realities — each bolstered by a completely different set of facts and truths. Which is why it should come as…

Or maybe it’s time for the tech world to establish its own United Nations — It’s no secret that Facebook sees its users as experimental rats. It feeds one group of us one thing and the other group something else entirely all to see how we might react. It then takes its observations, adjusts its experiment, reinjects us, all while collecting data on their findings. Up until a few years ago… …

An analysis of the recent Web Summit I attended with the former Director of Research at Cambridge Analytica — For the past three years, I’ve had the pleasure of attending Web Summit — a tech conference centered on internet technology. This year, I listened to Christopher Wylie talk about data and privacy. Wylie was previously the director of research at Cambridge Analytica. According to Wikipedia, in 2018, he became…

The timing has never been this ripe to refocus our mission of being a no-frills, ultra-secure, and easy to use messenger app. Today’s digital climate demands data privacy, security, and most of all peace of mind. …

How to vote in favor of continuing the data resistance — I don’t have to tell you that we live in uncertain times. Maybe we always have but I think we can admit that nowadays things seem eerily toxic. Whether it’s the fact that a UFC match seems more civil than the state of our political discourse or that several people…

And Facebook’s key investors are attempting to inoculate themselves — Over the course of the last several weeks, I’ve written extensively about the problems with Facebook — its greed, corruption and of course its leader, Mark Zuckerberg. I have never minced words when discussing what I believe to be the most dangerous force currently threatening the future of our freedom…