The inventor of the World Wide Web warns that government control is limiting the possibilities of the internet, as dozens of countries and businesses sign a cyber-security deal at the Davos forum.
The comments by Tim Berners-Lee at the World Economic Forum on Friday plugged into a wider debate among the delegates on the future of the internet, particularly how to balance openness with privacy and security.
While Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer told the forum there was a "trade off" between privacy and the benefits of increasingly personalised services offered by internet giants, the network's founding father took up the ethical issues at stake.
"The dream is of a more open web," Berners-Lee told the gathering in the Graubünden ski resort, citing social media as a way of breaking down barriers.
But he said the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old US Internet activist who faced charges of illegally copying and distributing millions of academic articles, highlighted government efforts to police the internet. Full story...
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The comments by Tim Berners-Lee at the World Economic Forum on Friday plugged into a wider debate among the delegates on the future of the internet, particularly how to balance openness with privacy and security.
While Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer told the forum there was a "trade off" between privacy and the benefits of increasingly personalised services offered by internet giants, the network's founding father took up the ethical issues at stake.
"The dream is of a more open web," Berners-Lee told the gathering in the Graubünden ski resort, citing social media as a way of breaking down barriers.
But he said the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old US Internet activist who faced charges of illegally copying and distributing millions of academic articles, highlighted government efforts to police the internet. Full story...
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