Virtualization for privacy control

A method for increasing user control of data, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a user application stored in a memory of one or more private user storage areas, data from a first user device;
• virtualizing the data by the user application;
• fragmenting the data by the user application into two or more data fragments;
• sending, by the user application, a first portion of the data fragments representing a majority of the data to one or more data collector servers;
• storing a second portion of the data fragments representing a minority of the data in the one or more private user storage areas;
• receiving, by the one or more data collector servers, a request from a second user device for the data received from the first user device;
• retrieving, by the one or more data collector servers, the second portion of the data fragments representing the minority of the data from the one or more private user storage areas;
• compositing the data from the first and second portions of the data fragments by the one or more data collector servers;
• and
• sending the composited data to the second user device.

One or more non-transitory computer readable media stored thereon instructions configured to cause a computer system comprising memory and at least one processor to perform a method for increasing user control of data, comprising the steps of:

• receiving, by a user application stored in a memory of one or more private user storage areas, data created by a first user device;
• virtualizing the data by the user application;
• fragmenting the data by the user application into two or more data fragments;
• sending, by the user application, a first portion of the data fragments to one or more data collector servers;
• storing a second portion of the data fragments in the one or more private user storage areas;
• and
• sending the second portion of the data fragments to the one or more data collector servers to composite the data from the first and second portions of the data fragments and transmit the composited data to a second user device.