Co-Founder and CEO of Vivaldi, Jon Von Tetzchner, poses for a photo during the Web Summit, Europe's biggest tech conference, in Lisbon, Portugal, November 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters LISBON: People should worry about online data collection by technology companies because it gives them unparalleled insight into users lives, the creator of one of the biggest web browsers, Opera, said on Thursday. Jon von Tetzchner said the situation was already comparable to George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘1984’, since “everyone is being followed and everyone’s information is being collected”. Lack of awareness of the amount of data harvested is “a perfect storm of a really bad idea,” he told Reuters at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon. Von Tetzchner created Opera in 1996 and is now promoting his new browser, Vivaldi, that he says better addresses privacy concerns. Opera gained 350 million users and prominence in the mobile market but he left it in 2011 because he disagreed with the browser’s sale t...