Lee Rigby murder: internet firm could have picked up killer’s message - report (UK)
Source: Guardian UK
Intelligence committee chair calls Facebook a ‘safe haven for terrorists’ but rights groups warn of creeping state surveillance
The government has been handed ammunition to pressurise internet companies to monitor the contents of private messages and inform the security services of suspicious ones after an official report found one of Lee Rigby’s terrorist killers had written of his desire to murder a soldier.
The report, published on Tuesday, said the authorities were never told that one of the killers, Michael Adebowale, had written of his murderous intent six months before he and his accomplice, Michael Adebolajo, brutally attacked Rigby in a street near his military barracks and attempted to behead him.
But the internet company, understood to be Facebook, had not spotted the message, and so the security services were not told. The report by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee (ISC) said that if the message had been passed to MI5 it could have prevented the murder of the soldier.
David Cameron vowed to take action but an internet rights group warned against co-opting companies and turning them into an arm of the surveillance state.The government has been handed ammunition to pressurise internet companies to monitor the contents of private messages and inform the security services of suspicious ones after an official report found one of Lee Rigby’s terrorist killers had written of his desire to murder a soldier.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/25/lee-rigby-murder-internet-firm-could-have-picked-up-killers-message-report-says
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