London, April 23 : Web founder Tim Berners-Lee has warned against Internet service providers' plans to show specific advertisements to their clients depending on their browsing habits.
The MIT professor, at a Web conference in Madrid, expressed his concern over the new software, entitled Webwise, which replaced standard online ads with those of the browser's dominating interests.
London, March 12 : Inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, alongwith other online security specialists at the Houses of Parliament in London, have warned that the ever-increasing power of computers is threatening the future of the Internet.
The experts are mainly concerned about deep packet inspection (DPI), a technique that makes it possible to peer inside packets of data transmitted across the Internet.