He is trying to improve his creation on several fronts. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation he leads launched a “Contract for the Web” movement, a sort of Bill of Rights for the online world. Privately, he co-founded Inrupt, a company developing a protocol called Solid.
Solid’s core concept is the POD, for “personal online data,” which the company compares to a secure, though virtual, USB stick. All of your personal data is stored there, along with data verifying your identity.
Say you were sharing photos through a social-media site. The photos could be viewed on the site, but the photos wouldn’t be stored on the site’s servers, they’d remain in the POD. The user, not a company, would have control over all his or her data.
Tim Berners-Lee is proposing the POD to hold personal data.
A better idea is the POD securely holds and manages your encryption keys while the data is encrypted and stored on line. This would be the secure ID approach. The secure ID can run simple protection contracts, connecting data access to a biometric permission, for example.
Tim's idea still works and holds a middle ground until we decide the fate of personal encryption.
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