Facebook scans chats and posts for criminal activity
July 13, 2012 at 7:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2012 at 7:13 pm by Autumnlicious.)
Quote:Facebook's software focuses on conversations between members who have a loose relationship on the social network. For example, if two users aren't friends, only recently became friends, have no mutual friends, interact with each other very little, have a significant age difference, and/or are located far from each other, the tool pays particular attention.
The scanning program looks for certain phrases found in previously obtained chat records from criminals, including sexual predators (because of the Reuters story, we know of at least one alleged child predator who is being brought before the courts as a direct result of Facebook's chat scanning). The relationship analysis and phrase material have to add up before a Facebook employee actually looks at communications and makes the final decision of whether to ping the authorities.
Because criminals speak utterly different from normal law abiding folks of all walks of life... /sarcasm
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