Data privacy has been a hot topic lately, but for all the talk, solutions are elusive.  The privacy policy decisions of major technology providers and governments is now the stuff of modern headline news. Internet users wait with bated breath for the hollow promises of information stock-pilers like Google and Facebook and who are literally making up the rules as they go.  Clearly, this is not the first time that new technology has invoked urgent inquiry into ethics, and it will not be the last.  I would like to share with you my take on a data privacy dilemma of the past in relation to current issues, and how decentralization of data persistence into small autonomous nodes is an inspiring motif that may bring hope to e-freedom fighters.