Tim Berners-Lee: NSA Surveillance an 'Intrusion on Basic Human Rights'

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has expressed his concern over the the recently revealed secret NSA surveillance systems.

"Unwarranted government surveillance is an intrusion on basic human rights that threatens the very foundations of a democratic society," Berners-Lee told the Financial Times. The Internet guru also argued that these type of government intrusion threaten "the very foundations of a democratic society."

Berners-Lee's words came just one day after The Guardian revealed Edward Snowden as the source of last week's major leaks. Snowden opened a pandora's box of surveillance, from a court order that compelled Verizon Business to turn over all telephone records to the government, to an Internet communications snooping system called PRISM