February 28, 2018

ISIS recruiter caught by Facebook screenshot

An ISIS follower tried to radicalize hundreds of strangers worldwide, until one of his targets captured the messages and gave them to police.

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February 14, 2018

New AI technology used by UK government to fight extremist content

And it won't rule out forcing big companies like Google and Facebook to use it.

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August 02, 2017

UK home secretary: ‘real people’ don’t want unbreakable encryption

"Real people" just want cheap & easy; they don't care about stopping crooks and governments from reading their messages, says Amber Rudd.

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June 20, 2017

How social media companies are using AI to fight terrorist content

Facebook, Google and other providers are stepping up with techniques ranging from AI detection to human intervention in response to calls from politicians after a rash of terror attacks

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June 06, 2017

News in brief: spy chief warns on blame; FBI arrests NSA contractor; Japan holds teen on ransomware

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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June 05, 2017

News in brief: tech firms under fire again; facial recognition prize offered; hack leads to Gulf crisis

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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March 30, 2017

News in brief: tech firms ‘must do more’ on terror; data breaches shoot up; gloom at toxic online spaces

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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May 09, 2016

Twitter bans US spying agencies from terrorism early alert service

The service, Dataminr, alerted clients to the Brussels attacks 10 minutes before media knew: one example of its real-time Twitter analysis.

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December 10, 2015

Bill requiring reporting of social media terrorist content is back

Meanwhile, Google's Schmidt proposes a "hate spell-checker" to sniff out and suppress radical and terrorist content.

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