Facebook scans conversations, chats and posts - Informs authorities based on key words and data mini, page 1

news.cnet.com...

I've often suspected this. But here we go.

Facebook has added sleuthing to its array of data-mining capabilities, scanning your posts and chats for criminal activity. If the social-networking giant detects suspicious behavior, it flags the content and determines if further steps, such as informing the police, are required.

www.reuters.com...

Here's the article discussing how a man got busted for chatting up young girls. Was discovered by facebook. Ok in this case they netted a predator. But what about for less harmless crimes? On what basis are people being judged by this Orwellian website?

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.

and another article detailing a facebook legal account and subpoena:

www.zdnet.com...

Facebook already shares its Law Enforcement Guidelines publicly, but we've never actually seen the data Menlo Park sends over to the cops when it gets a formal subpoena for your profile information. Now we know. This appears to be the first time we get to see what a Facebook account report looks like.

Images on the above link.
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What are your thoughts? Surprised? Or has it always been this way?

reply to post by AlienAgendah

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Other than being 300 miles away from my family, I use FB to post the juiciest storys from here on my wall.. virtual middle fingers at the FBI and any watching here your days are numbered

reply to post by phroziac

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I had an idea called teacher space at least a year before FB came out that was going to basically be facebook but for teachers and parents to be able to communicate easier with assignments/grades/events. Many schools now have a version of this through the ISD in their area and I just saw a guy recently received start up capital to move forward on my exact idea years later.

I don't have money and I don't know to many people with millions but with the way our glorious intelectual property system is set up the first to have the money and run to the patent offfice reap the benefits.

Intellectual property will be the downfall of future society as all the money moves to a very few...

Oh wait that has already happened with banking.

This'll blow your mind!!

reply to post by VoidHawk

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Cliff notes plz??

No sound here.

reply to post by theMediator

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We all say and think things that are not illegal but want to keep private.

If you want to keep them "private", why on earth would you post them on Facebook????

Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by theMediator

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We all say and think things that are not illegal but want to keep private.

If you want to keep them "private", why on earth would you post them on Facebook????

Maybe you don't know about facebook but there are private one on one messages too and this is what the OP is mainly taking about from what I deduct.

Do you think a 50 year old man would post on the wall of a 14 year old girl so that everyone can see?
Impossible, so your argument is void sorry.

reply to post by theMediator

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Do you think a 50 year old man would post on the wall of a 14 year old girl so that everyone can see?
Impossible, so your argument is void sorry.

Not void. Don't write things online that you don't want others to read. First rule of privacy. I used to work in the behavioral health field...we wrote up case notes, on paper, and kept those files LOCKED. It was the LAW. If you want confidentiality, then don't post anything to people you don't know intimately and therefore should not TRUST.

Do you know how many predators have been "caught" by LEOs posing as 14-year old girls? Not impossible. I know plenty of 50 year old men (that is my generation)...and some of them are not only predatory monster, but also STUPID.

Oh, and btw, I have a Facebook page on which I NEVER write...but since some of my family and friends are on there, I from time to time I reactivate it, then shut it down again. Under a pseudonym. In the years I've been on there, I've received private messages and had decent interactions (i.e. thoughtful, intelligent, and of some depth) from a few acquaintances. But in general, it's just superficial BS.

reply to post by theMediator

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Maybe you don't know about facebook but there are private one on one messages too and this is what the OP is mainly taking about from what I deduct.

There is also a chat feature on fb, like AIM or Messenger. I think that this is what theyre talking about in the OP.

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