Privacy worries over web's future

By Jonathan Fildes
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh

The next phase of the web could face "big privacy" issues, a senior UK academic has warned.

Hugh Glaser of the University of Southampton made the comments at the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh.

He was describing the semantic web, an attempt to make the web more intelligent.

Privacy problems could occur, he said, because the semantic web deliberately combines multiple sources of information about people and places.