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by breck 1990 days ago
https://inrupt.com/ Is the startup.

Unfortunately at the bottom is a copyright notice. Nothing is going to “put people in control of their personal data” as long as we have copyright. Otherwise lots of your “personal data” will remained locked up with corporations.
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alisonkisk 1990 days ago
Exactly backwards. Copyright is control of data.
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breck 1990 days ago
Nope.

You do not have control of your data when you have no idea or control over the software and hardware that you store your data on. A situation that will never change as long as we have #ImaginaryPropertyLaws.

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