Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity

[Heath]

http://mashable.com/2012/07/12/facebook-scanning-chats/

Facebook and other social platforms are watching users chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected, according to a report.

The screening process begins with scanning software that monitors chats for words or phrases that signal something might be amiss, such as an exchange of personal information or vulgar language.

The software pays more attention to chats between users who dont already have a well-established connection on the site and whose profile data indicate something may be wrong, such as a wide age gap. The scanning program is also smart its taught to keep an eye out for certain phrases found in the previously obtained chat records from criminals including sexual predators.

If the scanning software flags a suspicious chat exchange, it notifies Facebook security employees, who can then determine if police should be notified.

 

[Jentai]

I only use Facebook for marketing. I`ve seen soo many people post all of their info on facebook for all to see. Shoot, i`ve even broken into people`s emails using the data from their facebook. Not to mention, god forbid, that you are ever in trouble with the law. They can just look up your facebook and get a neat alphabetical list of all your friends, all the places you like to visit, all the things you like, hobbies, etc... So much for privacy, really, who cares about the new cute cat you got or that your car looks shiny after you wash it. People are dying from hunger, get real.

 

[Kw3rLn]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM[/ame]

 

[Bretteo]

Sounds fair enough to me, there not scanning any of my chats unless i talk about anything i shouldnt... which im not, so im not bothered.

 

[Connor]

If you were going to plan something illegal why the fuck would you do it on facebook?

 

[Heath]

kaed - some people are really stupid and like to tell people however they can about what they have, or will soon do. Stupid people do stupid things. The real point scary part is how do you 'monitor chats' to find whether or not some one IS planning, or doing some thing wrong? Do you watch chats? is there specific sets of keywords that trigger some one to watch? that IMO is the scary part....