According to Reuters reports, in a few days the various representatives of the most important technology companies in Silicon Valley, including Apple, will meet with White House officials and with the main intelligence agencies of the United States to try to deal with the use of social media to recruit new members of terrorist groups such as ISIS. This meeting wants to find a legal way to control the information that circulates without putting the privacy of all users at risk.
Among those attending this meeting, are Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, Counterterrorism Advisor to the Presidency Lisa Monaco, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director James Clíper and Director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers.
The meeting to be held at the White House wants to try to enforce the law to make it more difficult so that terrorists have to use other means of communication to recruit and mobilize followers. This meeting wants to try to interrupt all roads to radicalization to try to prevent terrorist groups from using social media, as we have been able to read in The Guardian.
Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox and Microsoft are some of the companies that will attend the meeting. Technology companies should try to help more in the fight against terrorist groups, in addition to courier companies, widely used as communication channels between terrorists. According to Reuters, most tech companies will send senior executives instead of CEOs. Instead, Apple will send Tim Cook directly to the meeting.