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As governments around the world face the ongoing threat of extremism, US ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says tech companies have a social "responsibility" to take better care of what appears on their platforms.
And he says companies should go as far as filtering their feeds and opening encryption access.
Speaking today at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia, the head of the US intelligence community during the Obama administration said the issue was controversial, but Silicon Valley needed to play ball on national security.
"I do think there is a role to play here in some screening and filtering of what appears in social media," he said.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @11:07AM
The question is: are people like him (and Theresa May, and all the rest) - are they really just naive? Or are they actively malicious, knowing full well that governments will abuse these powers?
The answer is: they really are naive AND they are actively malicious, knowing full well that they will abuse these powers. Chances are they are incompetent as well.
But if you define in law that the previous illegal acts are now legal (sometimes retrospectively in Mays case) then its no longer abuse.