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Training Cops To Use Social Media Information

Posted by Soulskill on from the hashtag-protect-and-serve dept.

jfruh writes "Cynthia Navarro starts her sessions training police to mine social media in dramatic fashion: by quickly finding data about the officers themselves. She also provides information about who's where online — for instance, younger suspects will probably be focused on Twitter, while older folks are on Facebook or even MySpace. 'How much information can be gathered? Look no further than the 2011 Stanley Cup Riots in Vancouver, BC. By examining hours of video and social media posts made during the event, a taskforce was able to post pictures of over 100 suspected rioters online — over 30 of which were identified by police.' It's all part of a drive to teach even nontechnical police officers at small and midsized departments how to use social media to track suspects."

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  1. Training Cops To Use Social Media Information... by CosaNostra+Pizza+Inc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    for the following objective: to find the anonymous guy who's posting phone cams that catch police in the act of police brutality?

  2. What kind of training do cops need? by rbmyers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They are already the most effective street thugs and panty sniffers in society. They don't need the help of social media.

  3. The new social media is biometrics.. by Penurious+Penguin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With cameras at every turn reading faces and ears, and pre-crime detectors strewn about public places, the biggest social outlet there is will soon be fed live and directly into their hands. Courtesy of the DHS, we already have talking, listening, spying, interactive street-lights, as well as harebrained projects like FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technology), and backscatter gangsters strolling around.

    An interesting presentation by cryptome on mis-managing the ultimate social media (my take), society itself (in N.Y.), can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yn8oy9NHag4#!l -- It's worth a watch or listen.

    I guess f-book and such are still pretty sweet honey pots, but I think such duties will soon be automated enough to allow the average officer to comfortably return to their sticks and pepper-spray without having to endure IT 101.

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  4. Re:You have the Right to Remain Silent by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yet another reason to not be on Facebook, Google+, Twitter....etc...

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