SOCIAL NETWORKING: CRIME
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Law enforcement can use social media to find and catch criminals, by following their accounts on online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
The New York Police, the biggest police force of the USA, was the first to create a unit that uses social media to discover criminals that shared their crimes online (Source: Wikipedia)
People victim of crimes such as rape, psychological or physical violence can use social media to report, attract interest and sensitize people and also receive help from the others.
In Brooklyn, two young women, Pepper Ellet and Mary(Fonte: The New York, The Cut), use Facebook to describe how they were victim of rape. They use social to avoid being ignored by police like other women before them. And soon, feminist organization all around the world answer them with their support.
Criminals use social media to share videos and photos of their crimes online, to threat people (even other criminals)and find new victims and new gang adepts.
A lots of people don't feel safe sharing private information on social media because social exposes people to corporate and government intrusion and lacks privacy. They are also exposes to viruses that can harm computers and phones.
Hackers: there are people, criminals but not only, that use computers, phones and social media to steal private information form someone's account or even steal it's identity. The victim can be threat and this can even lead to suicide. In other cases, victim of hackers can be society, industry or even prison, banks and hospital.
"Performance crimes" is the phenomena of sharing crimes online. In this way, criminals are also supported by people, that maybe find it "funny" or that think it is a joke. (tandfonline, wjbdradio, the guardian, wgxa.tv, ...). This phenomenon is changing in a bad way people opinions about crimes. Maybe a child that is using social and don't know, can be impressioned.
Hackers
In 2016, hackers steal more than 100 million from Bangladesh National Bank (il giornale, il sole 24 ore)
"Dukes": a group of Russian hackers that are using Twitter to send viruses and threat not only to signal person, but also to Russian government. (Il Giornale)
Blue Whale Challenge, crated and diffused by social media
"ImageGate": a group of hackers is using social as LinkedIn and Facebook to send malware using photos.
Contego Service Groups has been created to detect fraud.
Cinema stars are using social media to talk with their follower to denounce crime
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