Facebook tracking users who threaten its workers: Report

San Francisco: Facebook has been monitoring and tracking locations of those users who can pose threat to its employees or physical properties, the media reported. According to a report in CNBC on Thursday, the tracking of users begins when the Facebook security team finds they are making “credible threats on its social network”. The tracking 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 Facebook.
The locations of users are only accessible after they were placed on a ‘Be On the Lookout’ (BOLO) list after their threats are deemed credible. The list is updated nearly once a week. “The company mines its social network for threatening comments, and in some cases uses its products to track the location of people it believes present a credible threat,” said the report. Facebook has 2.7 billion users across its services.