7-16-2012 Global:
Law enforcement is hailing Facebook for using its little-known data monitoring technology to spot a suspicious conversation about sex between a man in his early thirties and a 13-year-old girl from Florida.
According to Reuters, Facebook software on March 9 raised the red flag when it picked up on a conversation about sex between the man and the girl.
The two had only a loose relationship on the network.
The man was chatting about sex with the girl and planned to meet her after middle-school classes the next day, according to Reuters.
The conversation was automatically flagged for Facebook employees, who read it and quickly notified the police.
Police took over the girl's computer and arrested the man the following day, Special Agent Supervisor Jeffrey Duncan of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told Reuters.
The alleged predator has pleaded not guilty to charges of soliciting a minor.
Facebook doesn't talk much about this technology, which scans postings and chats for criminal activity.
In what Reuters called the company's "most expansive comments on the subject to date", Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan said that the monitoring software analyzes relationships to find suspicious conversations between unlikely pairings, i.e., between people of widely varying ages who only have loose and/or newly formed relationships, for example.
The technology also relies on archives of real-life chats that preceded sexual assaults, Sullivan told Reuters.
It's easy to see why Facebook doesn't talk about it much: the last thing the company wants is for its users to feel like they're being eavesdropped on, Sullivan said: ..For the remainder of this story: by Lisa Vaas
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Big Brother is listening America. Open your eyes. It's not just sex offenders that need to worry....it's everyone. Won't be long before they are arresting you for treason when you discuss with a friend how dissatisfied you are with the government. Go ahead....give them all your rights. They start by taking them from the people despised by the moral majority, but in time they will move on to ours as well using this already "established practice" as the precident.
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