Ian
Katz London
GuardianTuesday, April
17, 2012
The
government’s controversial plans to allow intelligence agencies to monitor the
internet use and digital communications of every person in the
Sir
Tim Berners-Lee, who serves as an adviser to the government on how to make
public data more accessible, says the extension of the state’s surveillance
powers would be a “destruction of human rights” and would make a huge amount of
highly intimate information vulnerable to theft or release by corrupt
officials. In an interview with the Guardian, Berners-Lee said: “The amount of
control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
“You
get to know every detail, you get to know, in a way, more intimate details
about their life than any person that they talk to because often people will
confide in the internet as they find their way through medical websites … or as
an adolescent finds their way through a website about homosexuality, wondering
what they are and whether they should talk to people about it.”
The
British computer engineer, who devised the system that allows the creation of
websites and links, said that of all the recent developments on the internet,
it was moves by governments to control or spy on the internet that “keep me up
most at night”.’
Full story here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/17/tim-berners-lee-monitoring-internet