Founder of web urges digital ‘bill of rights’

The inventor of the world wide web has called for a global digital “bill of rights” similar to the Magna Carta to protect internet users as the medium he created prepared to mark its 25th anniversary.

Tim Berners-Lee called on the world to take a stand against surveillance on the web — and suggested that the independence of the internet should be treated as a human rights issue.

In an interview broadcast on BBC Breakfast, Berners-Lee said people who use the web should be able to use it to communicate without being blocked or feeling that somebody is “looking over our shoulder”.