Friday, December 06, 2013

Berners-Lee urges citizens to secure web’s future...

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“But we are at a crossroads,” he declared. “Unless we seize the opportunity it will remain just ink on paper.”

The symbolic resolution, launched by Brazil and Germany and supported by European states including Switzerland, seeks to extend personal privacy rights to all people.

The 54-year-old British computer scientist who helped create and guide the web’s technological development, urged ordinary people to “secure the internet’s future”.

On Thursday, almost a quarter of a century after the web was born, Berners-Lee launched a campaign, “Web We Want”, backed by a coalition of civil society organisations including Free Press and the Center for Democracy and Technology.

“We must not let anybody –governments, companies or individuals – take away or try to control the precious space we’ve gained on the web to create, communicate and collaborate freely,” he declared.

He urged citizens around the world to start national debates about what they want from the web and future rights and freedoms and to push for the creation of a national bill of rights for the internet in each country. Full story...

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