Online news and social networking service, Twitter has blocked the
United Kingdom’s Police and domestic counter-intelligence agency, MI5
from accessing data which helps them to identify terrorists, monitor
propaganda pushed online by terror groups such as ISIS and to also
search for terms related to potential terror attacks.
To prevent
its users’ data being used for what it describes as government
surveillance, twitter cancelled the deal they had with the security
agencies.
Twitter’s decision has alarmed counter-terror bosses
and sparked outrage among ministers in the United Kingdom, who fear it
will make the country less safe.
Now, while Twitter are refusing to
share the data with police and MI5 too, they will continue to sell data
access to corporate firms. These firms use keyword search-style access
to its 300 million users’ tweets and public profiles and also monitors
sentiment about their products.
360L
0 comments:
Post a Comment