Tim Berners-Lee wants people to get the internet back from Big Tech
Live MintTim Berners-Lee has a radical proposition. The web today isn’t the vibrant motley network that came into being after Berners-Lee first fashioned it in 1989, but a landscape dominated by huge companies like Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook. Our data is scattered across Big Tech’s servers and those of countless other companies, out of our control. Earlier this year, five Belgian hospitals began storing information about patient visits in the data pods, a process which Berners-Lee says can help aid compliance with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. But for most of the rest of us on the internet that Berners-Lee started, the future is clear: Our personal information will remain scattered across countless databases, increasingly processed by AI systems that serve the interests of large technology conglomerates.
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