Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

2020-02-21 20:04

All of this is a long-winded way of saying that I have joined a company called Inrupt that is working to bring Tim Berners-Lee's distributed data ownership model that is Solid into the mainstream.

If you want your insurance company to have access to your fitness data, you grant it through your pod.

If you want your thermostat to share data with your air conditioner, you give both of them access through your pod.

Just as you can theoretically run your own email server but in reality you outsource it to Google or whoever, you are likely to outsource your pod to those same sets of companies.

Even if you do hand your pod over to some company, it'll be like letting them host your domain name or manage your cell phone number.

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/inrupt_tim_bern.html