We need to change the way we share our on-line personal data in the age of COVID-19

A few months into the pandemic Corona is the way for humanity the function key when I 30 years ago I could have imagined. Now it is a lifeline for billions of people and businesses around the world. But I’m more frustrated now with the current condition of the web than ever. We could do much better. COVID-19 underlines the urgency we need a new approach to the organization and personal information to share. You need to look offered only on the limited scope and challenges widespread adoption of the pandemic several tech companies and government applications. Think of all the data on your life in various applications in use accumulated – social gatherings, frequent contacts, recent travel, health, fitness, photos and so on. Why is it that none of this information can during a crisis to help combine and mostly used? It’s because you are not in control of your data. Most companies, from big consumer tech brands have skimmed it to your programs. Our global responses to COVID-19 should get an urgent impulse to present this agreement to reconsider. For several years, I worked with a growing number of dedicated engineers, a different type of technology for the Web. It is solid, respectively. This is an update to the Web – a course correction, if you will – that will provide you store all your digital information about your life, at work and at home with a place or places of trust, no matter what application you are using that produces it. The remains of the data under your control, and you can easily choose who can access it, for what purpose and for how long. Solid you can effectively decide how to share everything with everyone, no matter what you or the recipient App applications. And ‘as if your applications could all talk to each other, but only under your supervision. I think of all the possibilities that could be this new relationship with our data, unlock especially in the case of a pandemic. Take virus infection detection and contact tracing Apps: to share pandemic hits, and there is an invitation for people to certain parts of their health data. These applications could rapidly develop and deploy, and citizens of all confidence days. Once the crisis is that people simply allowed the withdrawal of their data would be and the application no longer have access to it. There is more to improve the lives of people who affected by the crisis could be done for the benefit – simply by linking data between applications. For example: if you could share photos of your symptoms, your fitness log, medications you have taken and places that have been directly with the doctor? Everything under control. What if you could make your whole family together automatically share your location information, and daily temperature measurements assured us all the feeling when it was safe to visit your grandfather? And be sure that no one else could see it. What happens when providers of health services, a map of homes during an outbreak could immunocompromised or at risk seen in that organize regular medical checks in power? And when the crisis is over, their access can be removed to your information, and requested privacy. What happens when the delivery of food apps homes can prioritize based on whether elderly residents lived there? they are known for, without these houses or the people through the delivery service their personal information. What happens when a suddenly unemployed may, by a simple application, give each authority access to their financial situation and quickly get a complete overview of all the services for which they are entitled? Without the fact that each agency could interfere with their personal activity in question. None of this is possible in the constructs of today’s Web. But all this could be possible and more. I do not think we should take the network as it is currently, or its shortcomings are eliminated only because we need it so much. It need not be so. We can do better. My goal has always been a path that allows individuals, the power distributed to individuals and distributed reimagines creativity, collaboration and compassion. Today developers to create new and interesting new applications and organizations ways to innovate. The impetus for this new and vibrant web is already evident, but we need the crisis to distract not do. We must be willing to take the floor as soon as this crisis goes, then better prepared to navigate next. To do this, I founded a company called Inrupt, the solid evolution to support a high quality, reliable technology that can be used by large-scale companies, developers and finally of all. We see the free data from silos and put it to work for our own benefit and well-being. You will be more effective and innovative, so that benefits humanity and work together to boost the economy. We build these new systems by which people work together more effectively. Let inspired to build businesses, governments and powerful application platform developers who work for us, not only for them. we focus on the post-COVID-19 world much more effective than pre-COVID-19 world. On this depends our future.
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