Tim Berners-Lee: selling private citizens' browsing data is 'disgusting'
by Sam Thielman in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#2J3V1)
As the world wide web creator accepts the prestigious Turing award, he talks to Sam Thielman about the US Congress's rollback of privacy rules and fake news
The Trump administration's decision to allow internet service providers (ISPs) to sign away their customers' privacy and sell the browsing habits of their customers is "disgusting" and "appalling", according to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web.
Talking to the Guardian as he was declared recipient of the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery's AM Turing award on Tuesday, Berners-Lee expressed mounting concerns about the direction of the internet he did so much to promote.
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