Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks out on data ownership | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/08/sir-tim-berners-lee-speaks-out-on-data-ownership
Berners-Lee said that “people only look at one angle” of #big_data. “When you read big data pieces in a magazine, it’s about how big companies are spying on you. A lot of the marvel of big data is a threat to me.
“What are these people going to do with that data? They’re going to target you with an ad which makes you feel a bit queasy. Targeted adverts are not the future.”
Instead, users should own their own data and be free to merge it with other sets as and when it could provide them useful insight (…) #semantic_web