Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the internet, has spoken out about the issue of data ownership. An article this week in The Guardian talks of how the father of the world wide web sees a future in which the individual is the one who owns their personal data – not the big companies – and a future in which the individual can use that data for their own benefit.
Well they say great minds think alike, and we’re thrilled that this is precisely what we are actively working towards here at SocialSafe – individuals aggregating their personal data from a variety of different sources to create a vastly superior data set that is more useful than the sum of its parts. Today, SocialSafe is a social media organiser enabling users to download and aggregate a complete record of all their interactions in one safe place allowing them to view, search, export, organise it and more.
Looking towards the near future, SocialSafe will extend to all other personal data sets (e.g. shopping, banking, utilities, health, quantified self etc.) and users will be able to permission access others to their data for service, reward or convenience. The user has total control over what they choose to download and where they store it – we as a company never hold any of our users’ data, and they’ll always be able to access it.
We’ve been saying publicly for some time that we feel big data is wrong for the individual, and we’re immensely humbled to have our intentions and vision vindicated by the words of someone so influential in not only the tech industry, but the world as a whole. If you’ve not read Alex Hern’s article, we’d highly recommend that you do so. It may just change the way you think about personal data and who is benefiting from you being you.
Very pleased to hear it!
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Security is worth an investment, here is another way to do it.
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I stopped reading at “the man who invented the internet”. I assumed you knew better than that.
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Yes – it is time to take back control of our personal data!
his w3c and hyper-text-xfer-protocol (and knighthood) notwithstanding, BELL LABS INVENTED the net a VERY LONG time before this cat was in diapers (sigh) and it goes back even further than Bell – to space races and transistors and other MUCH earlier tech – why not just use Al Gore of Bill Gates or Larry Page? lol