Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt raised over $10M in 2019 to operationalize Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee's start-up Inrupt to expand operational team and launch pilot projects — Inrupt, the start-up company founded …
Financial Times John Thornhill
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Discussion
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@rasmus_kleis
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
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“For the world to experience the true value of the web we're building, we must address the vital issues related to privacy, trust and security,” Tim Berners-Lee says. https://www.ft.com/...
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@jessefelder
Jesse Felder
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'Tim said there had been a “rush of interest” from open source developers, entrepreneurs, tech company executives and government officials to support Inrupt's mission to decentralise the web and hand power back to users.' https://www.ft.com/...
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@danyork
Dan York
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Very cool that Tim Berners-Lee's company Inrupt is getting an injection of funding to develop #Solid project- https://www.techmeme.com/... And also very cool that Bruce Schneier is involved! (See below) I've played with Solid a small bit, but want to explore more. #Decentralizati…
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@hoofnagle
Chris Hoofnagle
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FT: Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt is “working with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in the UK to pilot an innovative ‘early years’ app that will digitise children's healthcare records up to the age of 2.5 years.” https://www.ft.com/...
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@emax
Electronic Max
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Bruce Schneier announces that he's joined @timberners_lee's Inrupt > https://www.schneier.com/...
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@financialtimes
@financialtimes
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Internet founder scales up efforts to redesign way web works https://www.ft.com/...
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@ft
@ft
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Internet founder scales up efforts to redesign way web works https://www.ft.com/...
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@johnthornhillft
John Thornhill
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee's efforts to redesign the web are gathering momentum. @timberners_lee @inrupt https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@maljayaram
Malavika Jayaram
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This is big news. If @schneierblog thinks @timberners_lee's pod idea is viable enough to spend his energy on, I'm going to get popcorn while the inevitable comments and questions pile up. It'll be as revealing and useful as a mini #security and #privacy course. 🍿 https://twitter.…
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@koenvervloesem
Koen Vervloesem
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This is a big win for Solid: Bruce Schneier is now working for Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt as Chief of Security Architecture to bring Solid's distributed data ownership model into the mainstream: https://www.schneier.com/...
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@aveltens
Angelo Veltens
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“I feel that I should only work on things that matter to society. So here I am.” - Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me - Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/...
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@bortzmeyer
Stphane Bortzmeyer
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I've never understood #Solid, but, from 90 % of the comments to Schneier's last article, I'm not the only one. https://www.schneier.com/...