'Dynamite': web inventor warns about dangers of government snooping

The founder of the world wide web has sounded a warning about the dangers posed by governments intent on increasing the level of monitoring and filtering of the online activity of its citizens.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that while it was important to fight serious organised crime and for a state to defend itself against cyber attack, there were enormous negatives associated with excessive government oversight of the internet.

That [stored] information is so dangerous, you have to think of it as dynamite.

"The whole thing seems to me fraught with massive dangers and I don't think it's a good idea,” he said in Sydney on Tuesday in reply to a question about the Australian government's data retention plan.

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'Dynamite': web inventor warns about dangers of government snooping

'Dynamite': web inventor warns about dangers of government snooping

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