Tim Berners-Lee, who invented World Wide Web (www) two decades ago, cautions the surfers to be aware of indiscretion on the internet. It has grown much beyond the expectations and has become a massive and permanent data “archives” in human history. The www was started to facilitate information-sharing among researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory known as CERN. However, the destructive potential of the invention is also unlimited. The privacy of the personal data put on the web can never be guaranteed. Whatever is being typed on the web can be read by everybody else too – is causing a lot of anxiety among the net users. Individual privacy is lost, particularly through social networking sites. The feeling is that one is being made “naked” and studied in detail!
Big business houses are using the net for total commercialization. They are able to snoop on the surfers / consumers, and their surfing habits. He also said that the internet service providers should provide neutral service and not commercially exploit the personal data, such as medical records and credit card information, of the consumers without their knowledge.
Do we have any foolproof method of maintaining the personal information provided in the net for a specific cause, as personal?
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