The Tangled Web We Have Woven.

The article opines the World Wide Web infrastructure was developed without considering the issue of privacy and this is endangering people's basic freedoms. The article states people are on the verge of losing their fundamental right to be alone with their thoughts. It also states the fundamental pr...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 20 - 23
Main Author: Moglen, Eben
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2013
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