The recent terrorist attacks in Europe alerted not only the European governments, but also the US government, so White House officials organized a meeting with the presidents of the most important US IT companies to discuss the implementation of protection measures against terrorists.
Tim Cook will participate in this meeting, the official purpose of which is to discuss the possible implementation of measures to prevent the online recruitment of terrorists for the Islamic State terrorist group, the meeting will take place today in Washington, USA.
Representatives of Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft or Google will also be present at the meeting, with White House officials wanting to establish methods by which materials that counter ISIS propaganda can be promoted for online recruitment, but I don't know how willing Tim Cook will be to use Apple for something like that.
The American government believes that some Silicon Valley companies can help the state in the fight against the online propaganda carried out by the Islamic State, and this is perfectly true, but only if there is cooperation from these companies.
The White House sees Silicon Valley as an integral part of fighting the propaganda from ISIL and other groups. There needs to be a concerted effort to fight the ISIL propaganda," the White House official explained.
Although Tim Cook has a very firm policy regarding the protection of iDevice users' data, what the American government is asking does not prevent the achievement of this goal, so it will be interesting to see what the outcome of these discussions will be.
