Tim Berners-Lee: I want a web where I’m not spied on, where there’s no censorship.
Tag: online privacy
EMC: 61% Indians ‘willing’ to give up privacy over convenience
EMC: India is a relative new comer to the Internet world and everyone is lapping it up!
ECJ: Google must honour ‘right to be forgotten’
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Tuesday ruled that search engines, in some cases, must remove irrelevant or excessive personal information from the search results. The case highlighted the battle…
Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA Spying
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg personally called US President Barack Obama on Wednesday to express frustration over the US government’s surveillance programs. Zuckerberg spoke with the president following the most recent leaks of…
NSA posed as Facebook to spread surveillance malware
Latest leaks by the whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been disguising itself as a Facebook server in order to gain access to the computers of intelligence…
Tim Berners-Lee calls for ‘Online Magna Carta’
Speaking on the 25th anniversary of the internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for the ‘Online Magna Carta,’ a Bill of Rights. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee, believes a…
Privacy groups want FTC to investigate Facebook-WhatsApp deal
Privacy groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), have approached the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to hold the Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp,…
Research Claims Most Bittorrent Users are Tracked
Research by the University of Birmingham has discovered it is likely that users of peer-to-peer sharing tools such as BitTorrent are being monitored and their IP addresses stored by a number of…