US Department of Defense HQ, The PentagonFrom The Independent:
Social networking is not just for the MySpace generation. Intelligence agencies are adopting a controversial new technique to ident.
Intelligence agencies are building up a Facebook-style databank of international terrorists in order to sift through it with complex computer programs aimed at identifying key figures and predicting terrorist attacks before they happen.
By analysing the social networks that exist between known terrorists, suspects and even innocent bystanders arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, military intelligence chiefs hope to open a new front in their "war on terror".
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My Comment: Because this opens a can of worms on American privacy issues ... I doubt that this "Terrorist Facebook" will operate within U.S. borders.
But outside U.S. borders .... I expect everything is (and will be) possible.
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