opinion
PARADIGM SHIFT
All major social networks seize full control over users’ data. Legislators have ignored this crucial flaw in the digital economy, but the creator of the web has a plan to fix it.
Ruben Verborgh is an affiliated researcher at imec and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Decentralized Web Technology at Ghent University, and a Technology Advocate for Inrupt.
All major social networks seize full control over users’ data. Legislators have ignored this crucial flaw in the digital economy, but the creator of the web has a plan to fix it.