#Decentralization#Privacy#DataProtection#Solid: ""From the beginning, I always meant for the web to be a platform for creativity and collaboration," says Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web.
"The first decade of the web lived up to that promise, but that's not what we've seen in the last 20 years or so."
Sir Tim says a particular problem is the way personal data is handled. When you log in and store data in a website, it can only be used within that website.
But an open source software project, called Solid, is designed to reverse that situation.
The idea of Solid is that people have a private data store, and they get to choose which organisations can access it, for what purpose, and for how long.
Called a Personal Online Data Store, or Pod, it gives users control over their data, and the freedom to combine it or share it between applications.
Sir Tim is co-founder of Inrupt, a company that provides Solid-based technologies. He says using the technology would mean that data storage would be "centred around people, instead of around apps".
