Data Anarchy - Building a Social Media Platform Where Users Control Their Data
Despite the introduction of various laws and measures seeking to regulate digital data in the past few decades, there are still a huge number of issues surrounding data privacy and data control that have not been addressed. While major laws and regulations such as GDPR and PIPL do have a significant influence globally they only capture a small subset of problems surrounding data as they focus primarily upon personal data. From a technical perspective, centralised web applications are also inherently unstable as they can become a single point of failure. In the last couple of years, services such as Cloudflare and Facebook have suffered from huge problems where their services have become unavailable, causing issues for many users across the world.