Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web (WWW), has called on governments and businesses to preserve privacy by limiting how far they are willing to monitor (snoop) and record the online activities of innocent individuals. Sir Tim was speaking at The Web At 20 [years old] launch event for the BBC2 series Digital Revolution (to be broadcast next year).


The audio quality of Sir Tim's opening speech above is a bit on the poor side but he makes many familiar and valid points about the problems facing the Internet, both in terms of censorship, privacy and content development.