BBC NEWS | Technology | Web creator rejects net tracking

[Caspar Bowden]

>From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.=
greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Roland Perry
>>Ian Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
>  Tim Berners-Lee says that he'd change ISP to avoid Phorm:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7299875.stm
>
>        "... he had a warning for young people about putting personal
>        data on these sites.
>
>        "Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the
>        person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's
>        all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and
>        your grandchildren as well."

Nice to see TBL commenting on Internet privacy - doesn't happen often.

His manifesto for Web Science is distinctly light on privacy
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13347/1/1800000001%5B1%5D.pdf

See e.g. pp.103 with rather gloomy prognosis, obligatory refs to P3P, and n=
o references to other privacy technology research of past ten years...

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Caspar Bowden