Microsoft Is Testing A New Project Allowing Users To Fully Control Their Online Data

Indira Datta - Jan 06, 2019

Microsoft is said to be working on a project that allows users to fully control their online data. The project's website is reportedly to be in a beta mode.

Microsoft is said to be working on a project that allows users to fully control their online data. As stated in reports, the idea has been tested quietly, and a beta website has been launched by the company.

The project comes amid a period when various social media platforms have been involved in scandals related to personal data of users, such as Facebook's Cambridge Analytica case last year.

The project allows users to manage personal online data called "Bali."

Reporters learned of this project through a post on Twitter. On Wednesday, a user called "Longhorn" tweeted:

The tweet has now been deleted.

Mary Jo Foley, a ZDNet journalist, discovered a website that seemed to be the site of this project. A code is required for login, but it could be requested. After that, PC Magazine also said that they could access this site, but when Business Insider tried to access it, the site could not be loaded.

The beta website for this project has now failed to load and cannot be accessed

Foley revealed that the test page of Bali was described as a:

On the beta website, the "inverse privacy" concept was also cited. The "inverse privacy" concept is the main topic of a paper from Microsoft researchers which was published back in 2014. It talks about the idea that other people can gain access to your data while you can't.

Microsoft has yet to give any feedback on this information.