Belgian Region Trials Web Founder's Data Privacy System (bloomberg.com) 5
The Belgian region of Flanders is rolling out personal data "pods" to 7 million citizens in a trial of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's vision for user-controlled data privacy.
Five Belgian hospitals have begun storing patient visit information in the data pods, developed by Berners-Lee's startup Inrupt over the past five years. The system aims to help compliance with European privacy regulations by giving citizens control over their personal information, from medical records to social media posts.
The initiative counters the current internet landscape dominated by major technology companies like Google and Meta, which store user data across their servers. Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989, advocates for returning data control to users through decentralized systems rather than leaving it vulnerable to harvesting by tech platforms and governments.
Five Belgian hospitals have begun storing patient visit information in the data pods, developed by Berners-Lee's startup Inrupt over the past five years. The system aims to help compliance with European privacy regulations by giving citizens control over their personal information, from medical records to social media posts.
The initiative counters the current internet landscape dominated by major technology companies like Google and Meta, which store user data across their servers. Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989, advocates for returning data control to users through decentralized systems rather than leaving it vulnerable to harvesting by tech platforms and governments.
D'oh! (Score:1)
Stupid Flanders!
Privacy is important. Don't abuse it. (Score:2)
There are basically two sides of anonymity. The most "famous" example on the positive side is that there are truths that risk penalties for the person who speaks them. On the negative side, the most common example is using anonymity to do evil or shameful things that the anonymous person does not want to be penalized for, no matter how much damage is accomplished. Guess which side is winning on Slashdot? Do you want three guesses?
Ads Disabled (Score:4, Funny)
I have ads disabled ("Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!") with a clear check mark in the box. Why then, Slashdot, am I seeing an ad at the top of the screen offering to "Scale Up Your Web Scraping (Free trial)"?? Fix this please. While you're at it fix the font issues too. That's only, oh, about 20 years overdue now.
links (Score:2)
More info here: https://www.schneier.com/acade... [schneier.com] and https://www.schneier.com/blog/... [schneier.com]
Maybe cool? (Score:2)