# Social Networks: Gated Communities or Free Cantons?

- Institution: CERN
- Department: IT Lightning Talks (ITLT)
- Speaker: Michael Davis
- Year: 2017
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3015079)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Online social networks and other cloud-based services have concentrated the control of the web in the hands of a few corporations.

Our personal data has been commodified, often without our knowledge or consent. Is there a way to retain all the benefits of social networking without giving up control of our data?.

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## Lectures

1. [Social Networks: Gated Communities or Free Cantons?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3015079/bda6156062a2), 13 min (CERN's player)