@atomicpoet, Regarding "Personal data is the new oil."...

Regarding "Personal data is the new oil." [1], the #Fediverse will take us to a better place where "Personal data is the new electricity" conducted via hyperlinks [2].

Oil reflects the current extractive (and polluting) mindset that drives #Web20 #DataSilos and #SurveillanceCapitalism.

Electricity aligns with technological inflection that ushers in a new frontier :)

[1] https://blog.atomicpoet.org/#Personal-data-is-the-new-oil

[2] https://medium.com/virtuoso-blog/what-is-a-sparql-endpoint-and-why-is-it-important-b3c9e6a20a8b

#HyperData #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #WebWeWant

Like 20 Jan 2023 at 21:10 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

6 comments

Arindam Basu

Great argument there: the analogy hits.

20 Jan 2023 at 21:16 | Open on social.arinbasu.online

Chris Trottier

@kidehen Can you tell me a little bit more about YouID?

20 Jan 2023 at 21:17 | Open on mastodon.social

Kingsley Uyi Idehen

@atomicpoet,

@youid is a #X509 certificate generator aimed at contributing an important component to the solution cocktail required for solving the #identity #authenticity problem that afflicts every #Internet and #Web user.

It's available in the following forms:

1. Browser Extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari
2. iOS App

SeeAlso: https://youid.openlinksw.com

User need to manage their own identity en route to solving this major problem :)

#SSI #Privacy #HTTP #TLS #SMIME

@atomicpoet,