Us-un Report

World Wide Web – How Safe Is It? Are children any safer now than they were 30 years ago on the Internet? Join Tom Osborne’s US World Report radio news team for this week’s broadcast. Tech firms are finding themselves on the defensive these days. Critics accuse them of not doing enough to curb the spread of "fake news" which has helped polarize election campaigns around the world and of maximizing profits by harvesting data on consumers’ browsing habits. British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who in 1989 invented the World Wide Web as a way to exchange information, said the Internet had deviated from the goals its founders had envisaged. "All kinds of things have have gone wrong. We have fake news, we have problems with privacy, we have people being phished, profiled and manipulated," he said in a recent symposium. Berners-Lee, 63, called on governments, companies and citizens to iron out a "complete contract" for the web that will make the internet "safe and accessible" for all by May 2019, the date by w