vinnyflood Indian government asks for live tweets from Mumbai to cease: “PLEASE STOP TWEETING about #Mumbai police and military operations,”

vinnyflood Would be useful if people could retweet my last message, particularly if you have an Indian followers or friends/family in Mumbai.

This is a really valid point on this story. There is huge potential for the compromise of the police and military operations ongoing in Mubai, if information on their movements is instantly made public. With this following stories a couple of weeks ago that western security services have concerns that terrorists could use twitter, I dread the news that Mumbai police are lifting mobiles from dead and captured terrorists that all have twitter accounts.

There is a huge issue here, I know I take the free use of email and messaging services for granted. It takes years for security services to catch up with the technology that most of us are using. I am genuinely concerned that mobile services could be subject to draconian regulation at some point soon. Let's hope the actions of homicidal lunatics doesn't cast a dark shadow over all the good that mobile technology delivers around the world.

But then Y! do own Flickr… interesting that they sourced it so fast though. I wonder will we get these Flickr widgets across all Yahoo News soon..?

Another Twitter topic/keyword aggregator that was pumping out about 10-20 updates a second was Roomatic – which was which was set-uo by Russelll beattie (@RussB) as far as I know – see: http://roomatic.com/%23Mumbai