But what Berners-Lee is doing, in all his talk of the utility of data, is shifting the value proposition of personal information. He’s reframing digital data as something that has a direct value to the users who generate it — not as some kind of fuzzy extension of identity, but as information that has a pragmatic worth.
Megan Garber at The Atlantic. The Founder of the Web Wants to Protect You From the Web
Tim Berners-Lee at The Guardian.
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