Twitter sued for enabling Isis by family of shooting victim
Twitter is being sued by the family of a soldier killed in an Isis shooting who claims the network hasn’t done enough about the spread of the group. Like the rest of the large social networks, Twitter has been under scrutiny as a place that Isis is using to recruit people online. A range of accounts use the site to spread propaganda and other information. The family of Lloyd “Carl” Fields Jr, who was killed in an attack in Amman in Jordan last year, claim that the shooting might never have happened if Twitter didn’t exist. The complaint claims that Twitter is aware of Isis users on its platform and lets them continue to use it. “While we believe the lawsuit is without merit, we are deeply saddened to hear of this family's terrible loss. Like people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by extremist groups and their ripple effects on the Internet,” a Twitter spokesperson said.
Twitter responds:
“Violent threats and the promotion of terrorism deserve no place on Twitter and, like other social networks, our rules make that clear. The company’s transparency report says that it complied with 42 per cent of just over 1,000 content removal requests in the first half of last year.
Privacy concerns dismissed by European court of human rights after Romanian engineer fired for using Yahoo Messenger to communicate with fiancee. The European court of human rights (ECHR) dismissed the engineer’s argument that the company had violated his right to confidential correspondence.
The court said it was not “unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours”, adding that the company had accessed the messages in the belief they contained professional communications. The judges also defended the decision by Romania’s courts to allow transcripts of the engineer’s communications be used against him in court, saying: “It proved that he had used the company’s computer for his own private purposes during working hours.”
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