(from he MIT Technology Review) Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, kicked off proceedings with an impassioned plea to save his creation from “fake people, fake ideas and fake truth.” He launched a “Contract for the Web,” https://fortheweb.webfoundation.org/principles-1 a set of principles for companies, governments and citizens, which will be turned into full guidelines by May 2019, when half the world is due to be online. These include a promise that companies will “respect consumers’ privacy and personal data.” Two of the early signatories are Google and Facebook. -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli@mat.uniroma2.it home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --