Security News > 2021 > October > Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

BBC R&D discovered it too didn't much like the way personal data was in the hands of the wrong people.

You keep your personal data stored on an edge device you control.

Agency says you get to control what data is kept and what happens to it - not just opt-in and opt-out, but how it's collected and stored.

It doesn't matter what sort of a superbrain data ninja you are, these are not powers easily gained - if at all - for the vast majority of personal data you are shedding every time you do stuff online.

Audience members liked the control and visibility it gave them; they understood the need to manage personal data but didn't understand how to do it.

The thing is, the HDI principles that the BBC is testing here apply to all data - like the web itself, they're standards which don't care what sort of data they're dealing with.

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/10/04/column_data_privacy/