Monitored Alarm Systems

No content the invention of the Web, then abandon it, Tim Berners-Lee is still very active in early warning of threats to the Internet and its users face. More recently he took on the British government is considering disproportionate to store information about every email sent and website visited in the UK:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who serves as adviser to government on how to make public data more accessible, said the expansion of surveillance powers of the state would be a destruction "of human man "and would make a huge amount of very personal information vulnerable to theft or release by corrupt officials. In an interview with The Guardian, Berners-Lee said:" The degree of control you have on someone so you can monitor Internet activity is incredible. "

What is particularly useful about your last statement is not only the authority with which talks on this issue, but the specificity of their warning:

"The idea that should routinely record information about individuals is obviously very dangerous. This means that there will be information on what could be stolen, which can be purchased through corrupt officials or operators of corruption, and could [be] used, for example, to blackmail the government people or people in the army. We open, if that information is stored, to abuse. "

is even putting aside the concerns on critical issues such as privacy and the total surveillance plans in the UK are a horrible idea, to From a purely practical: they will really make UK

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aa safe for all the reasons that Berners-Lee lists. Because of this fundamental flaw, which puts emphasis on:

"the most important thing to do is let the bill, it is right now"