Facebook is tracking the whereabouts of the user who decided to be 'a threat'

by www.thoughtcatalog.com

Facebook's security team has added users who are considered "threatening" to Facebook and employees to "monitored lists" and collected Facebook users' location information using Facebook applications It became clear.

Facebook's security team tracks posts, location for 'BOLO' threat list
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html

More than 12 former employees on Facebook told CNBC that if the content posted on Facebook is judged to be "risking Facebook employees or offices", the users posted will be on Facebook It will be added to the "monitoring target list". Facebook has used the Facebook application and the IP address of the PC to keep track of the person's name in the list of people to be monitored, former employees said.

The list that Facebook uses to manage threats is also called "BOLO list", and it is said that it is updated with about one span every week. A former employee said that the BOLO list was created in 2008, and as of 2016 it seems that hundreds of users have been added to the BOLO list. Every time a new user is added to the BOLO list, the former employee says that the profile will be sent to the security team, including the user's name, photo, location information and reason for being monitored.

Some former employees point out that there is an ethical problem with Facebook's surveillance regime, and some people liked George Orwell in 1984, accusing Facebook as " exactly Big Brother like ". did. The Facebook security team sometimes sometimes activates a physical guardman placed in the office based on the user's location.

by FirmBee

Other companies have the same "list of people who may harm the company" like the BOLO list, but in the case of Facebook, it is special that you can obtain information to be monitored through your own application. The reason why users are added to the monitoring targets is to return threatening comments to Facebook post executives' postings, including Mark Zuckerburg CEO and to suggest harming offices and employees You can post actions, and so on.

On the other hand, the former employee said that "there is no clear standard to be added to the BOLO list", and the decision is made on a case-by-case basis. In other words, it can not be said that there is no possibility that it will be added to the BOLO list simply by posting "FUCKIE, ザ ッ カ ー バ ー グ" or "フ ァ ッ ク Facebook". On the other hand, a Facebook spokesperson contested the former employee's claim and stated, "After the strict review of the effectiveness of the threats it will be added to the list."

by Tobias Dziuba

People on the BOLO list naturally do not know that they are being monitored by Facebook. In a strange case witnessed by former employees, there seems to be an incident that a user added to the BOLO list took lunch at a Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park with a friend on Facebook.

When the user was checked by security to enter the head office, it turned out that the person was "monitored object" posted on the BOLO list at once. Apparently this user was added to the BOLO list due to the message sent to Zuckerberg once. The guards who received the request of the security team gathered in the area where the user is checking in and did not touch the user directly, but the guards in front of the user near the user and the door in the vicinity and the user arbitrarily opened the door It seems he tried not to enter into.

A friend who worked on Facebook who eventually took lunch with the user requested "Remove him from the BOLO list". After the security team and the employee interviewed, it seems that the user was deleted from the BOLO list. Of course, this case is very rare, and users are rarely removed from the BOLO list in general.

by bruce mars

Also, Facebook's BOLO list includes not only users who posted intimidating but also Facebook former employees. In some cases, inappropriate behavior such as stealing a company's equipment is specified as reason for BOLO list posting, but in many cases the reason why former employees are added to the BOLO list is not stated clearly is. Several former employees claim that "all former employees who were fired have been added to the BOLO list," Facebook spokesperson said, "About threats such as violent behavior and harassment, personnel affairs It will only be added to the BOLO list only after passing legal review. "

Of course tracking by Facebook is not perfect, and there are many times that you can not trace where you are. However, if it turns out that the BOLO listing user is around the Facebook headquarters or the office, the security team will activate the guardsman, place them in various places, and sometimes request the law enforcement action, CNBC He wrote.

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Apart from this case, the Federal Trade Commission of the United States informed Facebook that " We let user data leak to third parties such as Cambridge Analytika, etc., and severely infringed upon the privacy of our customers" It is reported that it is expected to impose a fine.

Facebook could face multi-billion FTC fine over privacy violations - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/14/18225440/facebook-multibillion-dollar-ftc-fine-privacy-violations