Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
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Re: Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
#2This actually tripped up a friend of mine a couple of years ago. She left a comment on a photo of someone holding a toy gun saying "You look like " followed by a smiley. Within hours, she got a message and a phone call from someone claiming to be working for FB's security who asked her some basic questions on why she left that comment. The whole experience scared her from using FB for a long time.
I thought the whole thing was adhoc and confusing. Anyone who saw the comment could easily see that it was a joke. Also, if it wasn't a joke, why is FB calling her and not someone from law enforcement?
Would love it if someone from FB here on HN could comment.
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#3What I find interesting is, that now the but think of the innocent children argument is also getting adapted by the corporate world to justify incredible privacy invasions.
Facebook's mass wiretapping and analysis of its users private communication seems almost like the post office scanning each and ever letter and postcard in the vague hope of finding some keywords related to bomb, terror and of cause "children". I wonder how long it is going to take until Google is going to send automated notifications to my local police station when I'm going to start googeling some water bomb tutorials for the summer.
Re: Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
#4This actually tripped up a friend of mine a couple of years ago. She left a comment on a photo of someone holding a toy gun saying "You look like " followed by a smiley. Within hours, she got a message and a phone call from someone claiming to be working for FB's security who asked her some basic questions on why she left that comment. The whole experience scared her from using FB for a long time. I thought the whole…
It could also be a "friend" who saw the status update and had a sick sense of humor...
Re: Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
#5So what happens if Facebook's system flags a message, it is reviewed by their staff and then dismissed as non-actionable, but turns out to be the precursor to a severe criminal act? Does the blame come back on Facebook for failing to prevent this crime?
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#6The Mashable article seems to be sources from a Reuters article.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/us-usa-internet-pr... The program does appear to focus on sexual predators.
Mashable quotes Facebook as stating “where appropriate and to the extent required by law to ensure the safety of the people who use Facebook"
Can anyone speak to whether or not proactive scanning could possible be required by law? It seems entirely unlikely, but IANAL.
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#7This looks like it's mostly targeted at sex predators, but I wonder if the system is also activated if you jokingly tell a friend that they are "smoking crack".
Re: Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
#8This actually tripped up a friend of mine a couple of years ago. She left a comment on a photo of someone holding a toy gun saying "You look like " followed by a smiley. Within hours, she got a message and a phone call from someone claiming to be working for FB's security who asked her some basic questions on why she left that comment. The whole experience scared her from using FB for a long time. I thought the whole…
It could also be a "friend" who saw the status update and had a sick sense of humor...
How could the friend even find a way of contacting someone at facebook. That is near impossible.
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#9What I find interesting is, that now the but think of the innocent children argument is also getting adapted by the corporate world to justify incredible privacy invasions. Facebook's mass wiretapping and analysis of its users private communication seems almost like the post office scanning each and ever letter and postcard in the vague hope of finding some keywords related to bomb, terror and of cause "children". I…
This is a sincere question: Why would you think Facebook chat would be "private communication"?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could also be a "friend" who saw the status update and had a sick sense of humor...
How could the friend even find a way of contacting someone at facebook. That is near impossible.
There's almost always been some form of 'flag'/'report as inappropriate' button.