Privacy worries over internet future
Published May 24th, 2006
The next phase of the web could face “big privacy” issues, a senior UK academic has warned.
Hugh Glaser of the University of Southampton made the comments at the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh.
He was describing the semantic web, an attempt to make the web more intelligent.
Privacy problems could occur, he said, because the semantic web deliberately combines multiple sources of information about people and places.
Although some semantic web programs have been developed, it will be many years before they are publicly available.
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