Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt start-up secures £5m investment to help protect users' data online
The idea behind Berners-Lee's Inrupt is to flip the rules of who controls data on the web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and John Bruce founded Inrupt in 2018
Inrupt, a start-up established by web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has received £5 million investment from Octopus Ventures to help protect people's data and privacy online. Inrupt, jointly founded...
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