Facebook scans chats and posts for criminal activity

[Malware Maniac]

Facebook has added sleuthing to its array of data-mining capabilities, scanning your posts and chats for criminal activity. If the social-networking giant detects suspicious behavior, it flags the content and determines if further steps, such as informing the police, are required.
The new tidbit about the company's monitoring system comes from a Reuters interview with Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan. Here's the lead-in to the Reuters story:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57471570-93/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-criminal-activity/?tag=mncol;editorPicks

 

[McLovin]

This is a great idea. Stops them in their tracks online too.

 

[illumination]

They all start out looking like great ideas until they get abused. Seems to me this could cause even further privacy issues, not that Facebook was already full of them

 

[ranget]

the first thing to kill such technique is publicly advertise it
now all the criminals will go to myspace

 

[Ink]

Better not start chatting about what you did in GTA.

 

[iScream]

Better not start chatting about what you did in GTA.

lol agreed.

 

[Jack]

They all start out looking like great ideas until they get abused. Seems to me this could cause even further privacy issues, not that Facebook was already full of them

Very true.

A man in his early 30s was chatting about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida girl and planned to meet her after middle-school classes the next day. Facebook's extensive but little-discussed technology for scanning postings and chats for criminal activity automatically flagged the conversation for employees, who read it and quickly called police. Officers took control of the teenager's computer and arrested the man the next day.

The worst part here is that this kid ,sooner or later will get into trouble...
Sharing private information with strangers on Facebook (or Internet in general) and real life is not something that you should really do..... This should be a lesson, which he should have learned at home from his parents.After all, Facebook won't be there to save you all the time!
On this particular case : +1 Facebook and -1 Parents