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Title: Belgian Region Trials Web Founder's Data Privacy System

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/18/16542...

The Belgian region of Flanders is rolling out personal data "pods" to 7
million citizens in a trial of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's
vision for user-controlled data privacy. Five Belgian hospitals have begun
storing patient visit information in the data pods, developed by Berners-
Lee's startup Inrupt over the past five years. The system aims to help
compliance with European privacy regulations by giving citizens control over
their personal information, from medical records to social media posts. The
initiative counters the current internet landscape dominated by major
technology companies like Google and Meta, which store user data across their
servers. Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989,
advocates for returning data control to users through decentralized systems
rather than leaving it vulnerable to harvesting by tech platforms and
governments.

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