Wikipedia’s big boss Jimmy Wales has warned that the site will start treating the UK like a war-torn police state, encrypting all data sent here should the government push ahead with its so-called Snooper’s Charter.
Wales said: “If we find that UK ISPs are mandated to keep track of every single web page that you read at Wikipedia, I am almost certain we would immediately move to a default of encrypting all communication to the UK, so that the local ISP would only be able to see that you are speaking to Wikipedia, not what you are reading.”
Wales added that this sort of general encryption of page data is not a hard thing for the massive online encyclopedia to put in place, pointing out that the government’s proposal to require ISPs to log and record all internet use is “more like something I would expect from the Iranians or the Chinese.”
Telegraph via Gizmodo UK
My Take:
Such a good man. If Jimmy Wales decides to make a smart TV app that I can install on my LG TV then I would be willing to pay for this great free, web-based encyclopedia.
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