Wary Mideast states warn of Pokemon GO security dangers

The authorities of the Arab Gulf states of Kuwait and United Arab Emirates warned of safety hazards to play the successful new application for smartphones Pokemon GO. Users must resist the temptation to point the camera phones Pikachu popping out in front of the palace of the Emir of Kuwait, mosques, oil facilities and military bases, said the Ministry of Interior of Kuwait. "The danger in the treatment of this game is that it is photographing areas close user with smartphones ... that transfer images to third party sites," said Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior of Kuwait Suleiman al- Fahd.

"The Interior Ministry has informed the security officers to show zero tolerance for any such prohibited sites, deliberately or not, approach" Fahd said in a statement.

Officially launched in only five Western countries, Nintendo Pokemon GO is scheduled to be released 200 more "relatively soon", according to the company.

Agreed to the application via a VPN connection or stores foreign applications, users in the Middle East have also become addicted to Pokemon, which consists of walking in search of the "pocket monsters" that emerge superimposed on the phone screen through the chamber. Now the colorful creatures have been seen in landmarks such as the pyramids of Egypt and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Relatively rich and phone-obsessed, Gulf Arabs are no exception, but exercise their devices under the watchful eye of the acute conditions to prevent sectarian or seditious ideas. Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the UAE, said in a statement that the wait for the official release of the game in the country would save budding traders Pokemon 'of "violation of user privacy."

"Criminals (may) implement malware masquerading as these applications ... before its release in stores applications, the use of this technology to damage smartphone operating systems or spy on their owners," he said the notice.

A major driver of 2011 pro-democracy uprising in 2011, known as the "Arab Spring", social media and their widespread use by the growth of the young population of the region has baffled, both secular and spiritual traditional Arab authorities. Cabinet spokesman of Egypt in the news show "90 Minutes" on Wednesday that authorities were investigating Pokemon GO and tried to "minimize the dangers of these games." Abbas Shoman, undersecretary of the Al Azhar in Cairo, the main center of Sunni studies, desperate. "This is the largest class of manic for the future of those people in love with this game, seeking the streets ... Pokemon like drunks damage," said the newspaper youm7.