Web inventor urges users to seek ‘complete control’ of data

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Mon, 2019-03-11 21:01

GENEVA: World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Monday slammed the increasing commodification of personal information and appealed for Internet users to strive to maintain “complete control” of their data.
Berners-Lee, credited with creating the web in 1989, is on a mission to save his invention from a range of problems increasingly dominating online life, including misinformation and a lack of data protection.

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