--- title: Tim Berners-Lee | TIME description: Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the CTO and co-founder of Inrupt and inventor of the world wide web. canonical: https://time.com/author/time-berners-lee/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/time-berners-lee/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tim Berners-Lee ## Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the CTO and co-founder of [Inrupt](https://inrupt.com/) and inventor of the world wide web. ## Tim Berners-Lee *  Jul 15, 2020 ### [How to Change the Way We Share Data Online](https://time.com/5867314/we-need-to-change-how-we-share-our-personal-data-online-in-the-age-of-covid-19/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/time-berners-lee/","name":"Tim Berners-Lee"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/time-berners-lee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/time-berners-lee/"},"name":"Tim Berners-Lee","jobTitle":null,"description":"Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the CTO and co-founder of Inrupt and inventor of the world wide web.","url":"https://time.com/author/time-berners-lee/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```