Social Media News Excerpts from Newstweeters.com
Commentary: Will the Social Media, web tech crowd actually come to the aid of the FBI and help it build a tool to track social media activty for ‘bad actos’? Building a tool to track ‘bad actors’ is just the kind of tool the Syrans could have used to stop those protestors- think of the lifes this tool could save - excerpt below
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In January, the FBI openly requested help from the tech community in the development of a social media application. The bureau is seeking a system that could help it sift through social networking sites for signs of potential terrorism, crime, or other matters of national security.
According to Sean Gourley, the co-founder and CTO of quantitative analytics firm Quid, the FBI wants to track social sites to not only detect potentially catastrophic events such as bombings and weather related incidents, but it also wants to create a predictive model that would analyze the “publicly available” information that users put on social networks to help it detect “bad actors.”
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