Microsoft Goes Open Source For The Next Generation of The Internet

Our data world is so 1980s! The Marriott hack shows us that we are often sloppy with our handling of citizen data, and things need to change. It’s difficult to know exactly what happened, but there are signs that much of the data was unencrypted, and that, for the data that was encrypted, that the encryption keys could be easily generated. That’s not data protection!

We have grown up in a world without any real encryption, and where we apply sticking plasters onto our data in order to secure it. We also have little in the way of embedded ownership or control on our data. This was the simple data world we created, but things have to change. With GDPR, we now have new rights to privacy, consent, and the right to be forgotten.

In our new world, things will become anonymised and data will be stored and transmitted in a way which it will be almost impossible to make any sense of it unless you have the rights to recreate the required encryption.

Our future world will be an entanglement of encryption keys, and where we properly applied strict policies on the usage of data. If I own some data, such as my shopping history, I should have rights to own the data, even though Amazon currently stores it. If I want to reveal some of this to other, for financial gain, it should be under my…