Without Computer Security, Sources’ Secrets Aren’t Safe With Journalists. Google’s transparency report reveals sharp rise in takedown requests. Google's transparency report shows a general trend in rising requests by governments, law enforcement agencies and the courts, to takedown content that infringes rights or breaks the law.
The data, though designed as part of Google's open government policy, and to allow developers to 'mash up' the released data for custom consumption, the report sheds light on the nature of privacy around the world. But the search giant notes that the data is difficult to break down and to be made into a format for which users can understand and have simplified controls over the released data. Also, with a fragmented web after the Arab Spring uprisings earlier this year, it has led to many countries with poor human rights records losing Internet access for months at a time. The UK government requested the takedown of 135 YouTube videos for reasons pertaining to national security during the first half of the year, as part of a 71 percent rise in requests from the previous six months.
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National Security Producer Charley Keyes Bits of information - not just bullets and bombs - are in the thick of the fighting in Afghanistan. U.S. forces feared they were losing the information war to the Taliban and now are fighting back with Twitter - using those brisk 140-character messages to get out the other side of the story. "The Taliban were just constantly putting out false information and propaganda," said Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings. "Some of it was so wrong we finally had to start engaging, and backing up our information with the facts" This new reliance on all social media is quick and cheap. "It allows us to keep our followers dynamically informed while also keeping the enemy's statements in check," Cummings said in an e-mail exchange with CNN.
It is easy to see this play out on any day. But over at International Security Assistance Force headquarters, the social media experts are on the case on the ISAF Twitter account.