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| Israel uses Facebook to spy on Arabs & Muslims |
| 2009-11-10 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] For Facebook users updating their statuses or posting family pictures is for their select friends list but according to new report the information most people believe is private is actually being used by Israel to profile people and spy on them to obtain valuable information. According to "reliable" sources quoted in France-based, Israël Magazine, Israeli intelligence focuses mainly on Arab and Muslim users and uses the information obtained through their Facebook pages to analyze their activities and understand how they think. The extensive report allegedly ruffled some feathers in the Israeli government and diplomatic circles and Israel's ambassador to Paris accused the magazine of "making classified information available to the enemy." Israel's covert activity was uncovered in May 2001, Gerard Niroux, Professor of Psychology at France's Provence University said. "It is an intelligence network made up of Israeli psychologists who lure youths from the Arab world, especially from countries located within the range of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in addition to countries in Latin America," Niroux, who is the author of a book called The Dangers of the Internet, said. Niroux said a huge number of men use the networking website to meet women and warned this was unsafe as it is the best way to lure men and find their weak points. "It is very easy to spy on men using women," he told the magazine. This is not the first time Israel has been accused of using Facebook to spy on people and in April 2008 Jordanian paper al-Haqiqa al-Dawliya published an article entitled "The Hidden Enemy" making the same claims. The paper said it was dangerous because people, especially the youth, often reveal intimate and personal details about themselves on Facebook and similar online communities, making them easy targets for people looking in. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 "It is very easy to spy on men using women" No, really? Hooda thunk it? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-10 15:30 |
| #5 then there's Gordon Dickson's "Dorsai": "Soldier ask not, now or ever, where to war your banners fly! Anarch's legions all surround us, strike and do not count the blows!" _________ Okay, the "Friendlies" not the "Dorsai" said this to appease the finniky readers... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2009-11-10 13:52 |
| #4 Re#3: Heinlein philosophy was tough but fair. I miss the guy and the 50's concept he embodied - that the concepts of "right" and "wrong" -"good" and "bad" exist. How I abhor this 21st century multiculturalist misuse of the words "feelings" and "understanding". |
| Posted by: borgboy 2009-11-10 13:49 |
| #3 Arab and Muslim users and uses the information obtained through their Facebook pages to analyze their activities and understand how they think. "I have never understood the gangster mind -- I simply know what to do about gangsters ..." Lazarus Long |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-11-10 05:54 |
| #2 People use facebook to "spy" on each other all the time. How about some *real* news? |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2009-11-10 04:36 |
| #1 Gee, guys, I think I've found Israel's super-duper secret web tool they use to spy on paleos!!! It's lamebook. Those dastarly joooooos! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-11-10 04:15 |