Planning for More Surveillance? US Officials Hold 'Shady Meeting' With Tech Firms

[Judi Lynn]

Published on Friday, January 08, 2016
by Common Dreams

Planning for More Surveillance? US Officials Hold 'Shady Meeting' With Tech Firms

Heads of intelligence agencies and other top officials head to Silicon Valley for private summit on counter-terrorism

by Nadia Prupis, staff writer

The Obama administration is reportedly looking to Silicon Valley for assistance in the war on terror, as a handful of top government officials on Friday head to San Jose, California for a private summit with leaders of Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and other tech giants.

According to Reuters, which first reported on the meeting Thursday, attendees will include White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI director James Comey, National Intelligence director James Clapper, presidential counter-terrorism adviser Lisa Monaco, and National Security Agency director Mike Rogers.

One item on the agenda for the meeting, according to the document seen by the Guardian, is "In what ways can we use technology to help disrupt paths to radicalization to violence, identify recruitment patterns, and provide metrics to help measure our efforts to counter radicalization to violence?"

One source close to the meetings told the Guardian that because many of the companies on the invite list do not have social networks, the event is also likely to cover encryption—a much more contentious topic between the tech industry and the U.S. government.

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[Blue_Tires]

1. A "shady" meeting??

Yeah sure, whatever you say, lady...

I've pointed out repeatedly that tech corps were willing partners and not victims the entire time, but DU didn't want to have that discussion two years ago, and DU doesn't want to have it now..

[Wilms]

2. Did I miss that?

I guess to the degree they may have had their arms twisted you can call them victims. But I thought it was pretty clear that the big providers just went along.

Of course, there were those who argued it was OK because a Democrat was in the WH and their view of Snowden and Greenwald as "traitors" and "Putin lovers" and so on.

Authoritarians are something else. Aren't they?

[marmar]

3. +1000

[OnyxCollie]

4. !!!

[OnyxCollie]

5. He pointed it out repeatedly

when he was carefully laying out his case of flimsy, circumstantial evidence that Snowald is a tool of Putin.

I missed it, too.