Your personal data all over the web - is there a better way?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee argues that individuals should regain control of their personal data, and an open source project called Solid is designed to let them do so through a private Personal Online Data Store, or Pod. Users choose which organisations can access their data, for what purpose and for how long. In Flanders, Belgium, Athumi is running several Solid projects, including a diploma-sharing application with recruitment firm Randstad that it plans to scale to 30,000 users during 2024. Inrupt's John Bruce says that spreading data across individual pods, rather than large databases, would make attacks harder, while Amanda Finch of The Chartered Institute of Information Security warns that users taking on more responsibility could create new risks.