New details have emerged following last Thursday’s attack on Temple Israel, including a warning from the suspect’s ex-wife to police just moments after the violence began. The suspect, 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Lebanon, died after ramming his vehicle into the West Bloomfield, Michigan, synagogue and engaging in a shootout with armed security. The FBI later confirmed Ghazali died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. According to newly released 911 records obtained by Fox News, Ghazali’s ex-wife called dispatchers at 12:21 p.m. — just two minutes after the attack began — warning that he was “mentally unstable.” She told the operator that Ghazali had been deeply distressed following the reported deaths of his brothers and their children in an Israeli airstrike, and said he had recently asked her to send money overseas. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Sunday that Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, identified as the attacker’s brother, was a commander within Hezbollah’s “Badr Unit.” According to the IDF, he oversaw weapons operations and was involved in launching “hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians” before being killed in an airstrike last week. Federal officials acknowledged they are “aware” of the family’s alleged ties to the Iranian-backed terror group. The investigation has also uncovered a premeditated trail leading up to the violence. Two days before the attack, surveillance footage captured Ghazali at a Phantom Fireworks showroom in Livonia, where he spent more than $2,000. Store executives noted Ghazali specifically sought out items with names like “Military Demolitions” and “Da Bomb.” “He obviously thought that they were going to be stronger and perhaps more devastating than they were,” said Phantom Fireworks Executive Vice President Alan Zoldan. Investigators later recovered large quantities of fireworks and gasoline containers in the bed of Ghazali’s truck, which ignited after he crashed into the building. The attack occurred while the synagogue’s preschool was in session. Thanks to the intervention of armed security and the rapid response of local law enforcement — who rushed into the smoke-filled building to evacuate children — all 140 students and staff were safely evacuated without injury.

87 million Facebook users lost control of their most personal data to political operatives without ever clicking “yes.” App Harvests Data from Friends Without Consent Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher, launched the “thisisyourdigitallife” app in 2014. Approximately 270,000 users installed it for a personality quiz. The app collected their data plus profiles from up to 87 million friends, including 70.6 million Americans. Facebook’s API rules at the time permitted this friend data access with minimal user consent. Kogan shared the dataset with Cambridge Analytica for psychographic profiling. Users approved the quiz but never authorized political exploitation or friend scraping. This loophole, not a hack, defined the scandal. Cambridge Analytica Targets 2016 Elections Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 from SCL Group, received Kogan’s data. The firm built voter models for Ted Cruz’s primary and Donald Trump’s general election campaigns. It allegedly aided Brexit efforts too. Psychographics predicted behaviors from likes and posts, enabling microtargeted ads. The Guardian reported Cruz campaign use in December 2015. Facebook discovered the sharing in 2015 and demanded deletion, but verification failed. Alexander Nix, CA CEO, oversaw operations until exposure. Whistleblower Ignites Global Firestorm Christopher Wylie, a Cambridge Analytica insider, revealed details to The Guardian and The New York Times on March 17, 2018. Facebook suspended CA that day. Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress in April 2018, defending platform policies amid #DeleteFacebook backlash. CA filed for bankruptcy in May 2018. The scandal erased over $100 billion from Facebook’s market value. Regulators pounced: FTC fined Facebook $5 billion in July 2019, UK ICO added £500,000 in October 2019. Settlements and Lasting Regulatory Hammer Meta paid $725 million in a December 2022 class-action settlement. Facebook settled another lawsuit in August 2022 for an undisclosed sum. The FTC imposed a 20-year oversight order on Meta, mandating audits and data protections. Kogan and Nix faced deletion orders. Post-2018, Facebook restricted APIs, added inactivity cutoffs, and enhanced developer scrutiny. Zuckerberg promised trust reforms. These changes rippled industry-wide toward consent-based policies. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/9876543210987654321 Permissionless Access Erodes Trust and Sparks Reforms Stakeholders clashed: Facebook called it misuse, not breach, citing consented API use. CA claimed only 30 million profiles; Facebook verified 87 million. Regulators and media drove accountability. Impacts hit users with privacy violations and voters with integrity doubts, though Brexit role proved limited. Common sense demands explicit consent over loopholes—aligning with conservative values of individual rights and limited government overreach in private data. Tech shifted to stricter audits, fueling GDPR-like laws. Distrust lingers, reminding us platforms prioritize profits until forced otherwise. Sources: https://www.huntress.com/threat-library/data-breach/cambridge-facebook-scandal-data-breach https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/cambridge-analytica-controversy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal http://privacyinternational.org/taxonomy/term/605

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