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Originally Posted by Gazella
Oh yes. It was publicly announced by the UAE Chief of Police. The Deputy Director of Anti-Electronic Crimes got interviewed about it and he said the monitoring was not a violation of public freedom, since the content is in a public space for all to see. Facebook and Twitter users are being more cautious now.
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The UAE authorities seem to be more upfront about their 'surveillance' than other countries who are no doubt doing the same thing - just not making an open disclosure about it.
Though the thing that interests me is if the private or select group of 'friends' communicating to each other can be monitored and how that is happening. It's one thing for the open to all chats to be able to be publicly followed - another for the invite only or private chats. I'm not singling out the UAE on that issue.