Mexican Drug Cartels Avoid Police With Social Networking
Drug Cartels in Mexico have implemented new techniques in avoiding military raids and police checkpoints by using Facebook and Twitter. Government o...
Drug Cartels in Mexico have implemented new techniques in avoiding military raids and police checkpoints by using Facebook and Twitter. Government officials have monitored the social networking sites as they believe it has been used in the abduction of the relatives of powerful businessmen and politicians, as kidnappers are allegedly using the social networking sites to identify the families of a high profile individual and monitoring their daily activity.
The authorities have already been irritated by ordinary citizens who have used twitter to alert one another of the locations of breathalyzer checkpoints, they use the name @anitaa_df to highlight messages to each other and a similar tactic is now being used in a similar manner by the drug dealers.
Twitter and other social networks are being used by organised Crime to communicate with one another through terms and phrases unrecognised by the public. Not only have the cartels used the networks to communicate with each other but also incite terror amongst local communities. Recently the town of Reynosa, whose citizens have been victim of drug gang activity, was terrorized by members of a cartel spreading messages. One such message read; “The largest scheduled shootout in the history of Reynosa will be tomorrow or Sunday, send this message to people you trust that tomorrow a convoy of 60 trucks full of cartel hit men from the Michoacan Family together with members of the Gulf Cartel are coming to take the city and take everyone out alive or dead!”
“Twitter is a serious problem not only to Mexican law-enforcement agencies but to any law or intelligence agencies all over the world, criminals, drug cartels and terrorist cells are getting more sophisticated in their methods of communication,” remarked Ghaleb Krame, Mexican security expert.
The Mexican government has recently drafted a bill to allow close regulation and monitoring of the use of social networking in Mexico. By helping others break or avoid the law by sharing information is now a criminal act under the new bill. Social media companies themselves will not be targeted by the bill, only the users of the networks. The bill has been controversial in Mexico and many users have slammed the legislation as an excuse to act as Big Brother.
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