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Re:Rescue Forensics (YC W15) Helps Law Enforcement Find Vict... by remarkEon on Friday February 20, 2015 @08:09PM (#9084194)
Not at all. The parent describes pretty succinctly how a liberal democratic society can chip away, over time, at some of its core values in order to go after "the bad guys". The bad guys in this instance are sex traffickers. But who knows who the next "bad guys" will be. Think of it this way - these guys built something that collects online behavior and checks it against known behaviors, catalogs "suspicious" listing activity, unmasks phone numbers etc (on a technical level, could someone add to the specifics of how this works?). In this case it's being used to target sex trafficking. But could it not also be used in less progressive countries to target minority community behavior? Could Russia, already with a history of discrimination against the LGBT community, use it to find and target those members?

Edit: I don't mean that Russia could literally use this company's product. I meant the principle.

Re:Rescue Forensics (YC W15) Helps Law Enforcement Find Vict... by orbifold on Friday February 20, 2015 @08:55PM (#9084335)
There is research on identifying sexual orientation from Facebook profiles beyond those that volunteer thar information.