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January 30, 2013
Stephen Hutcheon
THE founder (click here) of the world wide web has sounded a warning about the dangers posed by governments intent on increasing the level of monitoring and filtering of the online activity of citizens.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that while it was important to fight serious organised crime and for a state to defend itself against cyber attack, there were enormous negatives associated with excessive government oversight of digital activity.
He believes that stored information is so dangerous, it can be likened to dynamite....
