Top-level US officials meet with representatives of IT companies to combat terrorism online

Many countries in our time are making significant efforts to combat terrorism. In the US, there is a real war with criminals of this kind. The special services, the army, the police are involved in this war. All this, mainly in offline, normal life. Well, since criminal elements are increasingly mastering the wisdom of telecommunications, the United States intends to open a “second front” online.

For this, top US officials and special services executives meet with top managers of telecommunications companies. To understand the scale and level of such meetings, suffice it to say that the leaders of the FBI, NSA, National Intelligence, as well as the CEO of Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo take part in them.

The main focus is the messages of terrorists, communication in social networks and instant messengers. The government plans to monitor the activities of terrorists on the Web, including exploring recruitment methods for recruits to terrorist organizations. At the same time, many users of the Network, human rights organizations fear that government agencies will insist on creating backdoors for government agencies in software and hardware.
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So far it is unclear what exactly the government is asking the telecommunications companies to undertake in this regard. But one can hope that the latter will not go to change their own technologies to please the authorities. Telecommunications companies can do a lot to fight terrorism, but hardly anyone will be able to hire agents and security guards. Although, how to know.