World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee takes on Google, Facebook, Amazon to fix the internet

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and his business partner, John Bruce, have launched Inrupt, a company that allows consumers, rather than companies, to control their own data, to store it in pods, and to move it wherever they please. That means Facebook, Google or any other Big Tech company will no longer be able to extract an individual's photos, comments or purchase history without asking. All of that will be stored on a pod, and the individual can share the information with the company if he or she chooses. Berners-Lee explained that he came up with the open-sourced, web-based protocols for the new company while teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's called Solid and allows anyone to share information with anyone else. They don't even need to be using the same apps. So far, the biggest deals that Inrupt has inked have been with government entities and large corporations.