Facebook monitors and tracks the locations of its users when the company’s security team finds that they are making credible threats on its social network, according to a report from CNBC today.
The company actively monitors its platform for threatening comments, the report said. That can include a nonspecific threat to a Facebook location or a direct one targeted at specific people. Once Facebook determines that a threat from a user is credible, the company uses data from its products to track that person’s location.
According to CNBC, this is done by using location data taken from the user’s Facebook app or an IP address collected by the social network when a user is active on the Facebook.com. CNBC reported that the locations of users…
Written by Makena Kelly
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