Twitter 'helped police foil riots'

Release Date 19 Aug, 2011 in The Press Association

Parliament body asks bosses of social media to appear before it Daily News & Analysis - 19 Aug, 2011 Place: New Delhi \| Agency: PTI Concerned over the role played by the social media in inciting unrest during the recent riots in England, a top British Parliamentary body headed by Indian-origin MP Kieth Vaz today asked the bosses of Twitter, ...
Twitter 'helped police foil riots' The Press Association - 19 Aug, 2011 Scotland Yard foiled riots on the Olympics site by monitoring "chitter chatter" on Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger. Police chiefs also considered seeking powers to shut down Twitter on a temporary basis amid concern about social networking websites' ...
The convenient scapegoat Malaysia Star - Veera Pandiyan - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ IS the social media and free flow of information via digital technology good or bad? It depends on where it happens and whom it affects. Text messages, Twitter and Facebook were hailed as powerful tools against repression when the people of Tunisia, ...
British spy agency called in to crack BlackBerry encryption ZDNet (blog) - Zack Whittaker - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Summary: British intelligence services are attempting to crack the BlackBerry encryption, in order to prevent the spread of further riots. It wouldn't be the first time that British spooks have cracked a ...
Scotland Yard Read Encrypted BlackBerry Messages During Riots InformationWeek - Mathew J. Schwartz - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ What's the easiest way to access an encrypted smartphone communications network? Have a smartphone that can listen in. At least, that was one tactic employed by police in London as they sought better intelligence ...
UK riots: Police averted riots at Olympic sites and Oxford Street by ... Mirror.co.uk - Jason Beattie - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Riots at Olympic sites and major shopping centres were foiled by police following “chitter chatter” on Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger. Chiefs said they considered trying to temporarily shut down Twitter ...
Police say Twitter and BBM gave riot 'intelligence' ZDNet UK - Jo Best - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Despite accusations that social services such as BBM and Twitter were responsible for facilitating last week's UK riots, senior police figures have revealed they did not request that the services be ...
Tweeting: The message is incriminating Arab News - Osama Al Sharif - ‎Aug 16, 2011‎ Tweeters will be prosecuted! This is what one senior Metropolitan Police head in London declared a day after riots broke out in various parts of the capital in August. He was referring to evidence that rioters were coordinating attacks on public ...
Intercepted Messages Let U.K. Police Avert Unrest Wall Street Journal - Alistair Macdonald - ‎Aug 16, 2011‎ British police said they stopped potential unrest at the site of next year's Olympic Games and upmarket shopping areas in London during this month's riots, after intercepting messages on BlackBerry Messenger, a service senior ...
Social monitoring prevented more rioting, say police Inquirer - Dave Neal - ‎Aug 16, 2011‎ DESPITE APPARENTLY not having monitored Blackberry Messenger traffic and social networking web sites during the recent riots, London's Metropolitan Police has claimed that it prevented more attacks by watching the networks. ...
MI5 called in to find organisers of riots Sydney Morning Herald - ‎Aug 16, 2011‎ British Prime Minister David Cameron promises an all-out war on gang culture following the "wake-up call" of recent riots. LONDON: The security service MI5 and the electronic interception centre GCHQ have been asked by the government to join the hunt ...
	Riot inquiry to go ahead as MI5 helps investigations Sydney Morning Herald - ‎Aug 16, 2011‎ BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has agreed to demands from Ed Miliband, leader of the opposition Labour Party, for an inquiry into the riots that erupted in England last week, according to two government officials. ...
	Police accessed BlackBerry messages to thwart planned riots The Guardian - ‎Aug 16, 2011‎ Police thwarted planned riots with the help of intelligence garnered from BlackBerry messages. Photograph: Amer Hilabi/AFP/Getty Images Scotland Yard stopped attacks by rioters on sites across London hours before they had been due to take place after ...
	Phone snooping 'prevented riot' BBC News - ‎Aug 16, 2011‎ Police say they prevented attacks by rioters on the Olympic site and London's Oxford Street after picking up intelligence on social networks. Assistant Met Police Commissioner Lynne Owens told a committee of MPs officers learned of possible trouble via ...
	MI5 joins social messaging trawl for riot organisers The Guardian - ‎Aug 15, 2011‎ A looted O2 mobile phone store in Tottenham Hale. MI5 has joined the hunt for riot organisers who used smartphone messaging. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features The security service MI5 and the electronic interception centre GCHQ have been asked by the ...
	UK riots: Do BlackBerry makers have a secret code that would let police ... Daily Mail - Sharon Churcher, Julie Moult - ‎Aug 14, 2011‎ They are accused of playing a vital role in helping rioters to plot the violence that blighted Britain. But when The Mail on Sunday tried to question Twitter and the makers of BlackBerry phones about the sinister use ...
	BlackBerry: MI5 to decrypt BBM Generation NT (US) - 19 Aug, 2011 According to information reported by the Guardian, the British government has requested that MI5 work on decrypting messages sent via BlackBerry Messenger to assist in ongoing investigations of the recent London riots. The British police noticed that ...
Social media: Where's the police state rhetoric when you need it? Huffington Post (blog) - 19 Aug, 2011 It's odd to watch so many people blaming social media for riots, when everybody can see Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger are just tools. We don't condemn cars because they're used by getaway drivers, and we don't blame roads for traffic ...
Unsocial media Stabroek News - 19 Aug, 2011 By Stabroek staff \| 0 Comments \| Editorial \| Thursday, August 18, 2011 History is replete with examples of inventions that ought to have been used specifically for the betterment of mankind being hijacked, misused and abused. ...
Damaging an image Marketing Web - 19 Aug, 2011 The spread of the recent riots in the UK has been attributed to BlackBerry's Messenger service and Twitter. JOHN FARQUHAR examines this damaging accusation. The BlackBerry cellphone, a brand that built an enviable 'Must Have' accessory image amongst ...
SIM card registration and UK riots BusinessDay - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ British Prime Minister, David Cameron, cut the picture of a tangled bureaucrat last week as he tried to connect the lines in the ferocious four-day riots that tore through the soul of London . At the end of the mayhem (Rio Ferdinand of Manchester ...
Should governments be able to ban people from using social media? Sync (blog) - Rhonda Callow - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Following the recent London riots, the UK prime minister is considering whether to ban people from accessing social media if they're suspected of plotting criminal activities. Now, RIM is dealing with a public relations ...
Social Media Minute: Obama on Foursquare, MI5 Trolling Online CMSWire - Jason Harris - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format: US President Barack Obama is no stranger to social media. The president gained a huge base of support ...
Social media information 'wrong and rather silly' Research Magazine - James Verrinder - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Tools of democracy they may be, but Twitter and the Blackberry Messenger service were also used by the Metropolitan Police to gather intelligence on planned riots in London last week and make sure officers were on the scene ahead of ...
	Briton Arrested For Organizing Water Gun Fight Via Facebook and BlackBerry ... Social Barrel - Solon Harmony Dolor - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ After the mess created by the riots in London the past few days, a British man has apparently been arrested by authorities in the country for organizing a water gun fight via Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger. A British man has reportedly been arrested ...
	Anti-social media? The Engineer - Jon Excell - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ The UK's recent disturbances have prompted a number of urgent debates, not least what, if any, role the government and police can play in identifying and addressing the underlying causes. But beyond the wider social and political issues, the outbreaks ...
UK police pursue rioters via Facebook and Twitter TelecomTV - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Following last week's rioting and looting in parts of London and other UK cities, police forces have, by means as yet unexplained, been gaining access to content transmitted via social media sites and even the allegedly impregnably encrypted BlackBerry ...
	London Riots 2011: Police Averted Riots at Olympic Site and Oxford Street ... IBTimes - Thomas Costello - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ London's Metropolitan Police say they foiled riots at the Olympic site at Stratford and the Oxford Street shopping district by monitoring Blackberry Messenger services as well as Twitter, the Guardian ...
	Twitter foiled riots at London Olympic site, Westfield and Oxford Street Metro - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Attacks on shopping centres and the Olympic site were thwarted after police used the phones of suspected rioters to intercept messages and Twitter posts, it was revealed. Planned assaults on Westfield shopping malls in east and west London, ...
	British Police Prevent New Protests after Monitoring Social Messaging Sites Fars News Agency - ‎Aug 17, 2011‎ Scotland Yard stopped protests across London hours before they had been due to take place after managing to "break into" encrypted social messaging sites. Protests had been planned in East and West London using BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). ...