Tim Berners-Lee Doesn't Like Beacon
When being questioned about Phorm, a new technology being used by U.K. ISPs to track consumers’ web usage, Tim Berners-Lee stated “I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached. My ISP doesn’t control which websites I go to, it doesn’t monitor which websites I go to.”
He argued that ISPs have to directly negotiate with users to access their data and make it clear that their information is being accessed prior to the information being stored.
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