‘Imagine individuals had a sense of digital sovereignty?’, says Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web at CERN in the late 1980s. Fast forward a few decades and the web has over 5.5 billion users. It has revolutionised everything from how we communicate to how we shop. Modern life is unimaginable without it. But it’s not without its problems, too.
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