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The internet has become part of our daily life. Nevertheless, we often worry about the lack of transparency companies show when they collect our data. According to a recent study conducted by Flanders’ research center imec , 67% of Flanders’ citizens feel the same. Professor Ruben Verborgh (imec), affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working together with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, on what they call an extension of the existing internet to safeguard data ,
Modern-day companies built their own way of storing and collecting their users’ data. Tim Berners-Lee calls this ‘data silos’ where each company protects its data from others, giving them a competitive advantage. The alternative proposed by Verborgh and Berners-Lee is a decentralized way of storing data, a personal data pod . If, for example, you migrate to another service, your data pod will move along with you. In that way, you can keep control over your own data and decide what you share, and with whom.
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