Solid, a technology aimed at redesigning the way users' data on the Web is accessed and giving users more control of their privacy, passed another hurdle on Nov. 9 when four organizations announced pilot projects with startup infrastructure provider Inrupt.
Designed by Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the World Wide Web — the and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Solid is an open standard that gives users the ability to share their data with websites and companies while retaining control of who can access the information. Based on encryption and granular access controls, Solid allows users to grant or revoke access at any time to the information stored in its data structures, known as personal online data storage or pods.
On Monday, the United Kingdom's British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the National Health Service, and UK-based financial house NatWest, as well as the Belgium's regional government of Flanders, all announced pilot projects in conjunction with Inrupt, the company said. Berners-Lee and John Bruce, a veteran of the cybersecurity industry and CEO of the firm, founded Inrupt in 2018.
"Until now, we haven't had much to say to people, except watch this space," Bruce says. We now have "an enterprise-grade version of what the open source community has been working on."
The Solid project aims to turns the diaspora of data spread out among proprietary Internet services into a more reliable and reusable — but still distributed — semantic web of linked data controlled by users. An application that needs access to a user's address will be able to access their pod — given prior permission — at any time. ..
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