EU Considers Using Israeli Technology to Hunt ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorists
SputnikNews.com
21.07.2016
On July 19, at the IT & Security forum, EU Antiterrorist Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove got the chance to see how Israel has shifted from monitoring metadata to crunching social media information to keep the country’s intelligence service one step ahead of potential terrorists.
Israel is at the cutting edge of monitoring internet users to determine who might be likely to commit acts of terror, according to EU Antiterrorist Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove.
The European Union has shown a keen interest in Israeli technology which monitors social networks, using internet activity to determine the likelihood that users will commit so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks and flagging them for further review, Reuters reports Gilles de Kerchove as saying in a speech.
Israeli’s Security Service at one point concentrated on processing metadata, but after Palestinian street attacks, the Security Service began to shift towards analyzing social networks for information regarding planned terrorist attacks.
“It is quite difficult to trace a potential terrorist who is not connected in any particular way to a terrorist group but was just inspired by their acts and only began to express some kind of commitment,” admitted Gilles de Kerchove at the 2nd International Intelligence and Special Forces (IT&SF) Conference in Tel Aviv.
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