Tim Berners-Lee

Web founder warns against service providers usurping users’ privacy

Web founder warns against service providers usurping users’ privacyLondon, 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.

‘Wiretapping’ threatening Internet, says web inventor Tim Berners-Lee

 ‘Wiretapping’ threatening Internet, says web inventor Tim Berners-LeeLondon, 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.

Web ‘still in its infancy,’ says inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-LeeLondon, April 30 : World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes

Internet creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee against web tracking

World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-LeeLondon, March 17: W