<story><title>Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/10/bernerslee_warns_of_spying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Understated_</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t have a problem with Google, Facebook and Twitter dominating the web as such because I don&amp;#x27;t have any accounts with them: They are commercial entities filling a need. Capitalism at work I suppose.&lt;p&gt;We all have a choice not to use them and I think this is the point he&amp;#x27;s missing (or the article is omitting).
The opening paragraph should be &amp;quot;Inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned that the internet has become the &amp;quot;world&amp;#x27;s largest surveillance network for those that use Twitter, Facebook and Google&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I have had lengthy conversations with my family and friends about Facebook and Google and what they do with your information and the majority shrug and say either &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not bothered&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;They would get bored looking at my stuff&amp;quot;. I don&amp;#x27;t bring it up with anyone anymore.&lt;p&gt;I feel that something monumentally bad will happen in the future related to the information these companies have amassed, something epically bad and the public will (perhaps) say &amp;quot;Enough is enough&amp;quot; but it will be too late... just my $0.02</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>Do you really have a choice to not use them? If so:&lt;p&gt;- You must not use android and have Google know your location for traffic purposes (and other ad-related data-mining)&lt;p&gt;- You must ensure all your friends never post pictures of you on FB, preventing them from building a profile about you by association&lt;p&gt;- You must block every single ad that originates from the Google ad network (and which is eager to learn your browsing habits)&lt;p&gt;- You must never fly on an airline belonging to Star Alliance, as Google bought ITA Software (formerly known as Sabre) to get a hold of all the airline reservations done for those airlines&lt;p&gt;- You must never send an email to someone with a Gmail address&lt;p&gt;This is a case where choosing to not use Google is a bit more complicated than choosing to not drink Coke.</text></comment>
<story><title>Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/10/bernerslee_warns_of_spying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Understated_</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t have a problem with Google, Facebook and Twitter dominating the web as such because I don&amp;#x27;t have any accounts with them: They are commercial entities filling a need. Capitalism at work I suppose.&lt;p&gt;We all have a choice not to use them and I think this is the point he&amp;#x27;s missing (or the article is omitting).
The opening paragraph should be &amp;quot;Inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned that the internet has become the &amp;quot;world&amp;#x27;s largest surveillance network for those that use Twitter, Facebook and Google&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I have had lengthy conversations with my family and friends about Facebook and Google and what they do with your information and the majority shrug and say either &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not bothered&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;They would get bored looking at my stuff&amp;quot;. I don&amp;#x27;t bring it up with anyone anymore.&lt;p&gt;I feel that something monumentally bad will happen in the future related to the information these companies have amassed, something epically bad and the public will (perhaps) say &amp;quot;Enough is enough&amp;quot; but it will be too late... just my $0.02</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotpwtomain</author><text>&amp;gt; We all have a choice not to use them and I think this is the point he&amp;#x27;s missing (or the article is omitting).&lt;p&gt;Moxie Marlinspike has a great talk on this subject (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Aom3JonbcZU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Aom3JonbcZU&lt;/a&gt;). The problem isn&amp;#x27;t the choice -- but the constantly widening scope of the choice, back when Facebook was a brand-new thing, the choice to not have a Facebook had no impact on my life whatsoever.&lt;p&gt;Today all of the photos albums my friends have taken are in one place: Facebook. All of activities people plan together are posted in one place: Facebook. When you meet someone new the nearly first thing they do is: check your Facebook. Facebook has broadened to assimilate the scope of activities and actions which were formerly independent aspects of life and to not have Facebook now - one pays a significantly higher social cost.</text></comment>