Demand Your Data From Facebook: Berners-Lee

As Internet activists in the U.S. take their fight against a major cybersecurity bill known as Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act online, the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee is voicing his protests to a similar proposal in the U.K., calling upon Facebook users to yank their personal data from the networking site.

The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, is voicing his protests to a similar proposal in the U.K., calling upon Facebook users to yank their personal data from the networking site.

Berners-Lee says Internet users should also demand all of their inaccessible data from Facebook, Google, and every other major website, according to a report in the British newspaper The Guardian.

The British law proposes that intelligence agencies observe every U.K. resident’s Internet use, including e-mail and social media, such as Facebook.

The controversial bill, known overseas as “the snooping law,” would be a “destruction of human rights,” Berners-Lee said today. He

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