Washington, July 31 (ANI): Social media giant Facebook reportedly refused to help the United Nations investigators seeking information on suspected pirates operating in Somalia.
According to the New York Post, the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea said that while many private companies cooperated in the investigative work on matters such as piracy, al-Qaida-linked militants and government corruption, Facebook provided no such assistance.
The U.N. said that despite repeated requests for access to information on Facebook accounts belonging to individuals involved in hijackings and hostage-taking, the site has never responded to them.
Meanwhile, Facebook said that the U.N. group had no legal authority to demand data from the company and that is why it declined their request and referred them to law enforcement authorities.
A former coordinator of the Somalia monitoring group, Matt Bryden said that Facebook has faced such pressures relating to privacy and the use of account information in various jurisdictions and added that he would expect them to be very cautious about sharing personal information even with a U.N. Monitoring Group.
The U.N. investigations have confirmed that numerous piracy facilitators are interlinked through various communication channels and employ social network services, such as Facebook.
However Somali pirate commander, Bile Hussein said that they don't use social networks for piracy use as there are more personal accounts than general ones for the pirates and they use emails for deals, the report added. (ANI)
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