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Inventor of the Web condemns UK Internet surveillance plans. Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, has publicly decried the UK government's plan to introduce an Internet spying bill that allows for warrantless, real-time surveillance of the nation's clicks, email and other online communications. Berners-Lee said: "The idea that we should routinely record information about people is obviously very dangerous. It means that there will be information around which could be stolen, which can be acquired through corrupt officials or corrupt operators, and [could be] used, for example, to blackmail people in the government or people in the military.

We open ourselves out, if we store this information, to it being abused. " Tim Berners-Lee urges government to stop the snooping bill. Father of the Internet is Concerned About UK Snooping Bill. As we noted last week, the UK government is toying around with the idea of introducing laws that would open up email and social networks to more surveillance, in an effort that is claimed to be counter-terroristic. The proposed bills will be mentioned and discussed during the Queen’s speech on May 9th. The inventor of the world wide web is having none of this, and has spoken out against the government’s proposal by calling it “destruction of human rights”. He didn’t stop there though, raising the point to The Guardian that if the government were to get this heavily involved in our daily lives and interactions, it would have to create a strong independent third-party to monitor the goings on: The idea that we should routinely record information about people is obviously very dangerous.

If we thought that SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA were a big deal in the United States, this shows us that we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to government intervention on the Web. “Go out in the streets and complain” says www inventor. Web inventor Berners-Lee shoots down CISPA. This week the inventor of the internet Tim Berners-Lee spoke on several subjects involving data sharing on the web - perhaps most important of all on CISPA, a bill currently up for review in Washington.

We've spoken about CISPA before - also known as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, and have gotten some positive and very negative feedback on it from you, the readers, and groups like Facebook - who say it's great. Berners-Lee, generally considered an expert on how the web works since he invented it, after all, is worried about the bill's implications.

Speaking this week with The Guardian, Berners-Lee expressed his worry on the CISPA bill passing through our government right this minute. Unlike Facebook, Berners-Lee doesn't have as much hope for the future of this and other similar bills attempting to add rules and regulations to the way the web works. Heed is words: What do you think, citizens of earth? Tim Berners-Lee: deep packet inspection a ‘really serious’ privacy breach. The deep packet inspection techniques proposed by the UK government represent a "really serious" breach of privacy, according to Tim Berners-Lee speaking during his keynote speech at W3C. Talking about the controversial Communications Capabilities Development Programme, the inventor of the web said: "Somebody clamps a deep packet inspection (DPI) thing on your cable which reads every packet and reassembles the web pages, cataloguing them against your name, address and telephone number either to be given to the government when they ask for it or to be sold to the highest bidder -- that's a really serious breach of privacy.

" He explained that DPI used to be impossible because processors weren't fast enough, but now your router can understand which diseases you think you might be suffering from. "People confide things in the internet by the searches they do. He added that for members of parliament or the military, this information could become a threat to national security. Sir Tim Berners-Lee: email snooping plan should be dropped. Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out Against CISPA. Tim Berners-Lee on internet data and privacy - audio | Technology. Google's Sergey Brin: state filtering of dissent threatens web freedom | Technology. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit back at critics of his exclusive comments to the Guardian about the importance of the open web, and emphasised that he thinks "government filtering of political dissent" poses the biggest threat to internet freedom. His words echo those of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, who told the Guardian this week that the UK government's plans for internet surveillance were dangerous.

Writing on his personal account on the Google+ network , Brin said that his remarks "got particularly distorted in the secondary coverage" by rehashed versions of his discussion "in a way that distracts from my central tenets". Brin comes from a family who fled antisemitism in the Soviet Union. In his blogpost he reiterates the point made in the original article that he thinks governments, rather than individual companies, pose the biggest and most immediate threat to everyone's freedoms online. Google's Sergey Brin Talks Government Censorship, Apple, Facebook - Liz Gannes. Tim Berners-Lee: We Don't Need Arbitrary New TLDs | Epicenter. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, is “not a fan” of the arbitrary new top level domains (TLDs) that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is currently offering, he told Wired.co.uk in a press conference at W3C.

He was referring to Icann’s application window for brands to bid for the domain name suffix of their choosing from dot brand (for example .pepsi or .HTC) or dot product (.drinks or .horses), which closes on Friday 20 April. “My personal perspective is that what we need in the domain system is stability,” he said. “We don’t need new arbitrary new TLDs.” He argued that some people assume that the new generic TLDs are creating great economic benefit but that there are already plenty of TLDs — including dot org, dot com and dot net — to choose from.

“There’s plenty of space,” he said. For Berners-Lee, the “only role” for a new domain name is “if you are making something that is socially different, such as dot org.” Berners-Lee: Net snoop law tosses human rights into the shredder. High performance access to file storage Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned the Tory-led Coalition not to push through a bill to legislate plans to massively increase surveillance of the internet. In an interview with the Guardian, the world wide web inventor and "open data" advisor to the government urged the Home Office to drop the proposed law, which Theresa May unveiled in July last year. As The Register has previously noted, such a plan to help security services in the UK monitor difficult-to-tap technology such as peer-to-peer communications has been in the running for some time. The previous Labour government was forced to shelve its plans to bring in the so-called Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) until after the 2010 General Election.

The Home Secretary effectively rebranded IMP to the Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) last year. Berners-Lee told the Graun that he was concerned that such legislation could prove to be a "destruction of human rights". Tim Berners-Lee warns about web firms and CISPA. WORLD WIDE WEB INVENTOR Sir Tim Berners-Lee is not very happy with the way his baby is turning out and has called on people and firms to stop using it in the ways they do. Tim Berners-Lee has popped up in the Guardian as part of its series of interviews with internet experts, a series in which Google co-founder Sergey Brin has already appeared. Pull out of the web giants and demand your data back, Berners-Lee said, and watch out for firms that offer walled gardens. In a wide ranging discussion Berners-Lee took on internet giants and smartphone makers that have application stores, suggesting that they make use of users' data to their own advantage.

He said that if users have control over their own information and online personas then they can use them to their own benefit. He explained that while the information resides in data silos belonging to giant web firms, this will never happen. "One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't... Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back | Internet & Media. Tim Berners-Lee, known as the father of the World Wide Web, says Internet users should demand all of their inaccessible data from Facebook, Google, and every other major Web site. "One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't," Berners-Lee told The Guardian in an interview published today.

"There are no programs that I can run on my computer which allow me to use all the data in each of the social networking systems that I use plus all the data in my calendar plus in my running map site, plus the data in my little fitness gadget and so on to really provide an excellent support to me. " To Berners-Lee, technology has the unique ability to understand more about its users than we might give it credit for. He pointed to his smartphone, which, by sitting in his pocket, knows "how much exercise I've been getting and how many stairs I've been walking up and so on.

" Berners-Lee has been ringing the data-openness bell for years. Patent lawsuits aimed at big and small operators threaten web freedoms. In the first week of February, Sir Tim Berners-Lee stood in front of a jury in east Texas. His task was daunting: he had to invalidate a set of patents claimed by a company called Eolas and the University of California. If he failed, almost everyone running a website with moving pictures or streaming video would have to pay a stipend to those two for each use. Berners-Lee famously didn't patent the world wide web when he invented it as a method of tying together data from different locations on the internet.

The web – confusing though it might seem – is a layer on top of the basic "internet" connection that comes into your home or office or smartphone. When asked in court why he hadn't patented his idea Berners-Lee said: "The internet was already around. I was taking hypertext" – what we see now on web pages as blue links – "and it was around [as an idea] for a long time too. " The US patent system is rapidly falling into disrepute over its treatment of software.