Facebook and Google have signed up for new internet standards which will require internet companies to respect data privacy and support the best in humanity According to Financial Times the standards were designed by World Wide Web Founder Tim Berners-Lee who last week warned that the technology giants are now so dominant that they might need to be broken up Those of us who are online are seeing our rights and freedoms threatened said Berners-Lee at the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon on Monday Nov 5 We need a new contract for the web with clear and tough responsibilities for those who have the power to make it better A report published with the contract revealed that nearly 60 companies governments and business leaders have signed up for the contract including Facebook Google the French government and billionaire Richard Branson Amazon which was named in the report has not signed up and did not immediately respond to a request for comment The contract will reportedly get more specific after consultations with governments and companies and could include a commitment to net neutrality Last week it was revealed that Berners-Lee has a plan to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it through technology that enables consumers to control their data as they shop pay and perform other tasks online With that in mind Berners-Lee has launched a company called Inrupt which is built around his platform called Solid According to Berners-Lee Solid gives every user a choice about where data is stored which specific people and groups can access select elements and which apps you use It allows you your family and colleagues to link and share data with anyone It allows people to look at the same data with different apps at the same time Users of the technology could use apps that are based on the Solid technology which are reportedly a work in progress Berners-Lee is also developing an alternative to Amazons Alexa voice assistant technology called Charlie which keeps data ownership with the consumer not a company Taken together the technology will he said appeal to people who are uneasy with what they view as corporate control of the internet LATEST INSIGHTS Our data and analytics team has developed a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark the innovation thats reshaping the payments and commerce ecosystem Check out our latest report in partnership with Visa Amazon contract data privacy data security data sharing Facebook Google Government Inrupt internet mobile apps News standardization Whats Hot world wide web