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- 'Walled gardens' restricting possibilities for innovation online, says Sergey Brin
- Governments worldwide - from Iran to the U.S. - also imposing restrictions on free speech online
- Google could not have been created if the web was dominated by Facebook, Mr Brin says
- He concedes that U.S. authorities ability to force Google to divulge users' data has eroded trust
The internet is facing its biggest ever threat, thanks in part of Facebook and Apple, the co-founder of Google has claimed.
Sergey Brin also said attempts by the entertainment industry to crack down on piracy have led to the U.S. using the same technology and approach it has criticised China and Iran for using.
With data stored on Facebook apps not searchable and only accessible to closed, restricted networks of users, the increasingly closed nature of the web risked stifline innovation, he said.
'There's a lot to be lost,' he said. 'For example all the information in apps — that data is not "crawlable" by web crawlers. You can't search it.'
Read more at DailyMail.co.uk.