Silicon Valley appears open to helping US spy agencies after terrorism summit
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/08/technology-executives-white-house-isis-terrorism-meeting-silicon-valley-facebook-apple-twitter-microsoft Technology giants appeared to be open to helping the US government combat Islamic State during an extraordinary closed-door summit on Friday that brought together America's most senior counter-terrorism officials with some of Silicon Valley's most powerful executives. - - - I would posit that what the government hopes it's going to get and what it's acually going to get are at considerable odds, because we know that the sort of controls that the government wishes to exert over social media, private communications, and encryption are at fundamental odds with the best interests of honest users of the Internet in general and law-abiding users of social media in particular. There are a few things that can be done without cutting deeply into civil liberties, some of which I noted several weeks ago in "A Proposal for Dealing with Terrorist Videos on the Internet" ( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001139.html ). But my sense as noted last night in: "Social Media and Terrorism and Ourselves: The Post I Didn't Want to Write Tonight" ( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001143.html ) is that especially in terms of dealing with the sorts of lone-wolf, self-radicalization attacks that are now apparently the primary concern, these steps would be useful but likely of limited useful effect overall. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
