UN
Group Wants
Facebook Info
While Others
Protest,
Letter from
Kismayu
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
20 -- While
human rights
and privacy
advocates
worldwide
criticize
Facebook and
other Internet
titans for
sharing
account
information
with
authorities in
the US, France
and elsewhere,
the UN is
complaining
about not
getting enough
information
from
Facebook.
The
UN's
Monitoring
Group on
Somalia and
Eritrea's recently
released
report on
Somalia
complains in
Paragraph 169
that it "has
received a
significant
rate of
positiv
responses from
private
entities, with
the exception
of the United
States-based
company
Facebook,
which has not
provided any
information
requested."
Should they?
Inner
City Press
previously asked the
UN about
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
quote that
whistleblower
Edward Snowden
"misused"
his position
or data to
expose massive
violations of
privacy.
On
the
other hand,
Inner City
Press has been
going out of
its way to
keep
its questions
about UN
Mine Action
Service
Mogadishu boss
David Bax
to those
regarding
sharing
information
with US
intelligence.
But
these have
still not been
answered.
Meanwhile
also
on Somalia,
the Free
UN Coalition
for Access
has been
reached
out to from
Kismayu:
Subject:
From
Kismayu
Date: Fri, Jul
19, 2013 at
10:31 AM
To: funca [at]
funca.info
Hope
all
is going well
with you, I am
speaking from
Somalia
particularly
from Kismayu,
Lower Jubba
region
southern
Somalia.
I
am interested
in providing
information
regarding the
situation of
Kismayu which
is very
precarious...
There was
recent
fighting
happening in
the town. Many
people had
displaced from
the town due
to
the fighting
between the
political
groups of
Kismayu. This
caused
many hundreds
of people to
die and others
flee from the
town where
hundreds
others had
been injured.
The situation
is not OK as
daily
clashes happen
between
Reskiamboni
supported by
Kenyan forces
and the
other
opposition
including Al
Shabaab.
So
many
people are in
very bad
situations,
sometimes
human right
abuses
happen in the
town and even
some
explosions
happens mainly
IEDs
nevertheless I
will try to
provide the
information on
daily basis,
direct to you
or you can
give me
regional
offices which
i can get in
touch with for
more regarding
this situation
in Kismayu.
Thanks
and regards
for Kismayu,
Somalia
Watch
this site.
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