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UK intelligence chief wants US tech companies like Facebook to work more closely with authorities

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Robert Hannigan, director of the UK spy agency GCHQ, has said that US technology companies need to work more closely with authorities on ways in which to prevent the promotion of terror and other illegal activities online. Writing in the Financial Times, Hannigan said that groups like Isis had quickly adopted the Web as an effective tool for recruitment and dissemination of information about its cause. “They are exploiting the power of the web to create a jihadi threat with near-global reach,” Hannigan wrote. “The challenge to governments and their intelligence agencies is huge – and it can only be…

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