Germany challenges Facebook on personal data,Google agrees to police its ads: are these landmark events?The internet celebrated its 28th birthday a fortnight ago. It’s an invention that ranks alongside the wheel, immunisation against disease and the internal combustion engine as a transformer of human existence. As an open information digital connector, or it is an extraordinary force for individual liberation,embodying the very best of Enlightenment values: more information is available to more people through their mobile phones and personal computers than ever before.
The world can then follow the Enlightenment injunction to dare to know to a degree that the powerful philosophers, arguing for a free public realm where information and evidence could be openly marshalled and tested for human betterment, or could never have foreseen.
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Source: theguardian.com