Twitter refuses to share information with the CIA

According to what the Wall Street Journal has published, citing United States intelligence sources, Twitter would have denied access to the authorities of that country to analyze the messages on its social network for the fight against terrorism.

Twitter does not believe in the good faith of the intelligence service

The intelligence service of the United States is engaged in the fight against terrorism, which is at this time in its most critical stage after the attacks that have been suffered on American territory in recent times (San Bernardino) and also in Europe.. Due to this, the control of the intelligence services has been intensified and social networks are one of the elements that are in the sights of the secret services.

As revealed by the prestigious WSJ, Twitter denied the CIA the use of a special application that is dedicated to monitoring and analyzing the messages that are published on Twitter, in this case it is about Dataminr. Dataminr is the only company that Twitter authorizes to monitor messages on its social network and is currently part of 5% of it.

Currently Dataminr is used by the media and other clients but for some reason Twitter does not want that data to fall into the hands of the American Government, in a case very similar to that of Apple and the telephone number of the San Bernardino terrorist, to whom the apple company refused to unlock.

Although Apple argued that the refusal to unlock the phone was due to the ' security ' of its customers, in the case of Twitter it is not understood why the press if they can access that information but not the Government, something that should explain.