Aral Balkan is a designer and social entrepreneur working to protect our fundamental freedoms and democracy by creating independent alternative consumer technologies that do not spy on you.

Aral is the founder and lead designer of ind.ie and author of the ind.ie/manifesto.

He is currently working on designing the first ind.ie product, a beautiful consumer smartphone called ind.ie/phone that will be crowdfunded this November.

Aral blogs at aralbalkan.com and tweets at @aral.