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Berners-Lee Rejects Tracking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the along-with-everyone-else dept.

kernowyon writes "The BBC has an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee during his visit to the UK on their website currently. In it, he voices his concern about the practice of tracking activity on the internet — with particular reference to Phorm. Quotes Sir Tim with regard to his data — "It's mine — you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me.""

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  1. Re:Renegotiation done! by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Unless you can take "your" data and keep it in your pocket, you can't own it. All you can do is sic tax-paid thugs on people for doing things with data that you don't like, and then only if there are arbitrary rules in place that say you can do it.

    Tim, you're a dickhead. If you want to enforce what people are doing with bits and bytes that you claim are your own, why don't you go grab a stick and enforce it yourself rather than fucking with the legal infrastructure.

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