Twitter has closed access to US intelligence analysis of user information – RBC

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Twitter banned US intelligence agencies have access to the service analysis of user information. Service is provided by Dataminr, about 5% of its shares belong to Twitter.Inc

Twitter closed the US intelligence agencies access to the service, the stream of all user information in microblogging, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The service, which sends notifications about possible threats of terrorist attacks, riots and other potentially important events on the basis of published by users of the material is not available Twitter itself, as a private company Dataminr, about 5% of which is owned by Twitter.

about the access closure special services to the service publicly announced was not, notes the WSJ, but this information publication confirmed high-ranking source in the US intelligence agencies and other sources familiar with the matter.

According to one of them, representatives Dataminr recently announced special services that Twitter no longer intends to continue to provide them with access to the service. Another interviewee WSJ noted that Twitter started to worry about the gaze of special services through this “eye».

According to the most Twitter.Inc, placed in the microblogging data are publicly available, and the US government can get to them access, just as any other user, writes WSJ.

Earlier, a similar scandal occurred in the American company Apple. In early April it became known that Apple has since 2008 helped the US authorities to open at least 70 iPhone. The first case was an episode when the US government turned to Apple during the investigation of cases of sexual abuse of a child, the company went to the prosecutor’s office to meet and “uncovered” smartphone.

However, in 2013 after the ex-employee of NSA USA Edward Snowden released data on the surveillance of special services for the citizens, Apple has changed the behavior. As the WSJ wrote that the company has raised the level of protection of their products and have a minimum of 13 times the authorities refused to cooperate on access to user information.