ARE WE HAPPY TO LEAD ON EXTREME SURVEILLAINCE? a fugitive from justice was recently nabbed in Mexico after posting his selfies on Facebook

• Published in: Scottish business insider p. 33
• Format: Journal Article Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh MGN Ltd 01.03.2017
• Subjects: Border patrol; Social networks; Watson, Emma; World Wide Web; Zuckerberg, Mark; United Kingdom; Mexico; Scotland; Edinburgh Scotland; United Kingdom > UK; China

WHEN I hosted a major international conference in Edinburgh in September 1994 I invited Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, to give a keynote speech. David Eggers wrote a fascinating novel, The Circle, about a massive dominant Google/Facebook-like company in the near future which gr...