He wants our data back too
Happy birthday to the web, which is 28 years young today… and it’s creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has used the occasion to warn us all about three „challenges“ that threaten to get in the way of the web „fulfilling its potential“.
First, Berners-Lee tackles personal data, saying that we should be given more control over the information we’re sharing and how it’s being shared – rather than having it kept in „proprietary silos“ by the web’s biggest companies.
The web’s creator wants to see more transparency in those terms and conditions we’re always clicking through, as well as greater freedom from government monitoring, another consequence of giving websites and app makers permission to gobble up our data.
Berners-Lee also calls for more „transparency and understanding“ when it comes to political advertising online, saying that the way parties can carefully target individual users with different adverts goes against the principles of democracy and is „a near-impossible situation to monitor“.
