Facebook monitors suspicious conversations

Constable Facebook ensures that the limits for his social network are not taken. The user is himself called on to report some content. But surveillance is probably deeper than users realize.

In an interview with Reuters, the head of security of Facebook says the social network has set up a monitoring system to automatically detect conversations and publications related to criminal activity.

In particular, the system software focuses on the conversations between Facebook members who have a tenuous relationship. For example, two members who are not friends or have recently become the social network, have no friends in common, have a big age difference ...

Based on phrases found in previous recordings of conversations with which criminal sexual predators, detection takes place. Where applicable, an employee takes over to Facebook to decide or not to prevent the authorities.

"We never wanted to create an environment where we have people who dig in private conversations, so it's really important to use a technology with a very low false positive rate"

Said Joe Sullivan.

Reuters writes that Facebook is one of many companies that uses a combination of technological and human monitoring to counter sexual predators. Nevertheless, Facebook has so far been very discreet about it.

This discretion is probably due to the risk monitoring to be equated with espionage and a drift of confidentiality. If Facebook has become a bit more verbose, it is perhaps because the social network aims to open up to the age of 13, and should be reassured.

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