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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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 20 - 23
Autor principal: Moglen, Eben
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2013
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Sumario: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 privacy of people's network interactions needs to be protected from active surveillance and data mining of personal information. The availability of free personal privacy software is noted.