{"id":3430,"date":"2009-07-15T08:41:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2009-07-15T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:24:34","slug":"iranian-authorities-using-facebook-and-twitter-for-intelligence-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Authorities Using Facebook and Twitter for Intelligence Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeny Morozov &#8211; always a pessimist about the use of technology against autocratic regimes &#8211; relays an anecdote from Iran suggesting the <a href=\"http:\/\/neteffect.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/07\/10\/are_iranian_authorities_more_sophisticated_than_we_think\">Iranian authorities are now using Facebook and Twitter for intelligence gathering<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On passing through the immigration control at the airport in Tehran, she was asked by the officers if she has a Facebook account. When she said &#8220;no&#8221;, the officers pulled up a laptop and searched for her name on Facebook. They found her account and noted down the names of her Facebook friends.<\/p>\n<p>This is very disturbing. For once, it means that the Iranian authorities are paying very close attention to what&#8217;s going on Facebook and Twitter (which, in my opinion, also explains why they decided not to take those web-sites down entirely &#8211; they are useful tools of intelligence gathering).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeny Morozov &#8211; always a pessimist about the use of technology against autocratic regimes &#8211; relays an anecdote from Iran suggesting the Iranian authorities are now using Facebook and Twitter for intelligence gathering: On passing through the immigration control at the airport in Tehran, she was asked by the officers if she has a Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[167,7],"tags":[1847,580,1914,2054,1650],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-the-web","tag-evgeny-morozov","tag-facebook","tag-iranian-election","tag-tehran","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-Tk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}