In early 2006, Michael Fertik was in Louisville, Ky., finishing a clerkship at the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, when he noticed that people and companies were increasingly being pulled online without their consent, through cyberbullying and theft of personal data.

The New York Times, March 27, 2014.

Michael talks data vault and privacy technology with the New York Times.

The New York Times, December 9, 2012.