Public safety sees opportunity, pitfalls in social media

Law enforcement agencies are looking for ways to mine social media to look for threats. Speakers at the Microsoft Public Safety Symposium spoke at a conference on Wednesday. New Zealand police set up a system that scrapes YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, plotting the message, photo and video uploads on a map. The system offered time stamps for when the tweets were made with a high granularity for where they were issued, he said. But over the six weeks of the World Cup, the system collected 20 million tweets.”]

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