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Origins 1989

Established by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, "devoted to all people having access to the Web" WebFoundation.org

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Tim Berners-Lee: governments are 'trampling on our rights to privacy'

There are three big threats to the world wide web as it currently exists – sharing personal data, misinformation, and political advertising.

That's according to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the web, who has written an open letter to mark the anniversary of his creation. Twenty-eight years ago today, March 12, 1989, Berners-Lee set out his initial idea for the system that became the web. Since then he has witnessed the introduction of smartphones, creation of social media, and a wider ability for people to connect.

In the open letter, Berners-Lee says he has become "increasingly worried" in the past year and says there should be a "fight against government overreach in surveillance laws".

"I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries," the founding director of the World Wide Web Foundation writes. "In many ways, the web has lived up to this vision, though it has been a recurring battle to keep it open."‏‎