The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area.
I imagine I would have been one of those student radicals they worry so much about. We use to do “Falafel runs” to Mamoun’s Falafel after midnight in NYC when I was in college. If they’ve sifted through his receipts from a decade ago, I’m on the radar.
Let them go through my stomach, I have nothing to hide.
Beware though, some have pointed out that falafel is often called ” Israel’s national dish. So, of course, the Jews are behind it… the falafel sales that is.
I have worked with predictive data mining applications in retail. It still disturbs me at how good it worked – for determining what someone would by, not who they would attack, how or when. Sorry, but when you’re clustering your customer, I don’t think you’ll end up with a Terrorist Cluster.
If you’re in to being on the falafel watch list, this blog has caught my attention recently -Arabic Bites. I drool with every new post.

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