Midas’ motivation for going to MIT is their decentralised information research group which is led by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web (www). Midas is fascinated by the groups research on web-infrastructure and policies and their focus on how you build sustainable digital technology that will not mess up our society.

During his exchange Midas will be researching how our rights, as a consequence of the GDPR, relates to the decentralised web-infrastructures. More precisely he will be looking at where our data is stored in a decentralised environment, who is the responsible data controller, how can we regulate it and how do you make the user understand their data field.