Social media security

Russian App Trawls Social Media To Predict and Prevent "Mass Disorder"

A new computer program developed by a pro-Kremlin political center mines social network sites for chatter about unauthorized protest rallies — and then reports its findings to the local authorities. As Isvestia is reporting, the project was launched by the Center for the Study of Legitimacy and Political protest. Ominously, it’s named after “Laplace’s Demon” — a hypothetical omniscient superintelligence that can predict the future by knowing the positions, velocities, and forces on all the particles in the universe at one time.