Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat rating’
A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system. Todays professional police forces where officers in even one-stoplight towns might have body armor and mine-resistant vehicles already raise concerns.
Yet new data-mining technologies can now provide police with vast amounts of surveillance information and could radically increase police power. Policing can be increasingly targeted at specific people and neighborhoods with potentially serious inequitable effects.
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Public safety organizations, using federal funding, are set to begin building a $7-billion nationwide first-responder wireless network, called FirstNet. Money is now being set aside. With this network, information-sharing capabilities and federal-state coordination will likely grow substantially. Some uses of FirstNet will improve traditional services like 911 dispatches. Other law enforcement uses arent as pedestrian, however.
One such application is Beware, sold to police departments since 2012 by a private company, Intrado. This mobile application crawls over billions of records in commercial and public databases for law enforcement needs. The application mines criminal records, Internet chatter and other data to churn out
profiles in real time, according to one article in an Illinois newspaper.
Link: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/12/12/police-data-mining-looks-through-social-media-assigns-you-a-threat-level/
niyad
(113,284 posts)are overwrought, exaggerating, or foolish.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)was printed by Intercept news site and using social media is one of the methods outlined that police use.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/23/blacklisted/
niyad
(113,284 posts)document could land one on the list, as well.
PDittie
(8,322 posts)for white privilege.