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Back in 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee sat down at the European particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva to invent what would one day become the World Wide Web, there was no one around to notice. When he and a few associates began creating the first browsers a year later, a mere handful of people were paying attention. The process of invention was swift, personal, intuitive and collegial.
The World Wide Web Consortium's Lorrie Cranor urges Webmasters to adopt better privacy regulations. Her message: Now is the time to start acting more responsibly.
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