RESHARED POST FROM REBECCA MACKINNON
RESHARED POST FROM DREW SOWERSBY
April 19, 2012RESHARED POST FROM JÜRGEN HUBERT
April 19, 2012In an interview with the Guardian, Berners-Lee said: “My computer has a great understanding of my state of fitness, of the things I’m eating, of the places I’m at. My phone understands from being in my pocket how much exercise I’ve been getting and how many stairs I’ve been walking up and so on.”
Exploiting such data could provide hugely useful services to individuals, he said, but only if their computers had access to personal data held about them by web companies. “One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don’t … There are no programmes that I can run on my computer which allow me to use all the data in each of the social networking systems that I use plus all the data in my calendar plus in my running map site, plus the data in my little fitness gadget and so on to really provide an excellent support to me.”
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Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook
Exclusive: world wide web inventor says personal data held online could be used to usher in new era of personalised services
