New York, January 23, 2019 — Datawallet is on a mission to give people ownership over their data. We believe that data should be owned and controlled by the people who create it — the users. To kick off the year, we’re launching a contest in the US to showcase how the Datawallet extension and its data sourcing capabilities make data ownership possible. The contest rewards participants with early access to the Datawallet platform and the chance to win a share of $100,000! We’re also excited to pre-announce our international rollout of additional personal data tools and services, to be released later this year.

With your Datawallet, you can source, store, and utilize your data. Your Datawallet is your place for bringing together all the data you create across the internet. It comes equipped with all the tools you need to automatically pull your data from the platforms currently profiting from it: Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, and more. Datawallet will give you data transparency, control, and mobility in a fun, new, and easy-to-use interface.

We’re passionate about data ownership, and recent events have finally forced the broader media and entrenched internet corporations to take it seriously. From Cambridge Analytica to GDPR, the connection between data ownership and a free and fair society has never been clearer.

People are concerned because our identities are at risk, both real and digital. While companies exist to protect against identity theft, there’s no protection against companies using our data in ways that oppose our values and contradict how we view ourselves. At Datawallet, we think your digital identity — the culmination and combination of your actions taken across the web — is a part of you that you should have complete control over. Owning your identity means owning your data, and that’s exactly what your Datawallet empowers you to do.

Data is a powerful catalyst for technological and economic growth, enabling new goods and improved services that can make our lives better. Ideally, we’d want to promote progress while ensuring personal data ownership, but how do we get there from here? The solution is as elegant as it is simple — give people power over their data and let them control it themselves. The current status quo is defined by companies that track your activities, profile your behavior, and then sell your information and attention to the highest bidder. But if we capture our data ourselves, and can choose who gets access, then we become the ones empowering growth and gaining wealth — all on our own terms.

All of us create extremely valuable data, but we don’t own it. We don’t know how our data is stored (and not secured), how it’s (mis)used, or how it’s sold (without the creator getting a cent). We decided to fix these problems. We decided to give everyone their own Datawallet.

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Get your Datawallet and earn a chance to win a share of $100,000 by signing up for the contest here!

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