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Obama appeals to Silicon Valley for help with online anti-extremist campaign

December 7, 2015 creative address, bernardino, law-enforcement, obama-on-sunday, office, president, roberta-rampton, shooting, silicon-valley, use-technology, wednesdays, york

By Roberta Rampton and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of militant groups using social media and electronic communications to plan and promote violence, setting up renewed debate over personal privacy online. “I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice,” Obama said in a televised Oval Office speech

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Obama urges tech, law enforcement to address social media used for plots

December 7, 2015 admin address, from-expressing, help-address, militant-groups, official, president, social-media, use-technology

The White House is urging Silicon Valley to help address the threat posed by militant groups by restricting the use of social media for planning and promoting violence, a senior administration official said on Sunday. In coming days, the White House will talk to companies in the tech sector about developing a “clearer understanding of when we believe social media is being used actively and operationally to promote terrorism,” said the official, speaking on background

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Shootings sharpen debate on U.S. electronic surveillance powers

December 6, 2015 creative address, against-privacy, bernardino, bulk-collection, bulk-metadata, california, from-expressing, help-address, militant-groups, nsa, official, recent-shutdown, under-renewed, use-technology, wednesdays

The San Bernardino shootings are reviving a debate about Washington's digital surveillance effort to find and capture violent extremists, with the recent shutdown of a U.S. cellphone spying program coming under renewed criticism. The debate is long-running and pits a huge and powerful national security apparatus against privacy and civil rights activists, who prevailed recently on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of cellphone metadata.