15:56 (Il Sole 24 Ore Thomson Plus) – New York, May 9 – Do not calm down the tensions between the companies’ Silicon Valley and the American Government on the thorny chapter on terrorism and privacy. To throw further fuel on the fire ‘was Twitter, which has deprived the American intelligence agencies access to a service that monitors the entire flow of posts published on social networks. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the decision is not ‘been publicly announced, but it’ s been confirmed by US intelligence sources. The service, which among other things spreads alarm messages in case of terrorist attacks, political protests and other events potentially important from a safety point of view, not ‘directly provided by Twitter, but Dataminr, a society’ that creates private “feed”, news streams, for customers. The social network controls a 5% stake in Dataminr. As reported by sources felt by financial daily, long the policy of Twitter and ‘to prohibit third parties, including the same Dataminr, the sale of data to federal agencies for purposes related to surveillance. “The data are largely public and the American government can ‘see public profiles on its own, as does any other user,” said Twitter. A24-Red (RADIOCOR) 16/05/09 15:56:37 (0531) 5
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