Consumers own very little of the data they generate, and this feeds directly into the business models of many digital enterprises. But this landscape is being reshaped by legislation and independent organizations – with potentially big implications for IT leaders.
The Fediverse, for instance, is a decentralized social media framework that creates a network of independently operated servers, communicating via shared protocols that let users move between social platforms without being locked into a big tech ecosystem.
Even further reaching is the Solid Project. Solid – short for social linked data – is a web-decentralization project spearheaded by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners Lee. It intends to give consumers private data ‘pods’ that they own and control. All their data – financial, medical, social, etc – goes into it, and each user decides who gets access to their data, how much, and for how long.
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