How to map the social connection of some person?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Do you know that Putin is three clicks away from you at the social media? This thing is investigated by some university, and that conclusion bases the claiming, that every person on earth would be two or three person thread from everybody, who uses social media. This thing makes us think, that in almost every person's social media network is some kind of intelligence officer.

Those officials serving for intelligence or police, and those persons mission is to find out drug dealers and other people, who are making criminal activities. The data, what is connected is problematic because it will uncover the real interests, what the users of the social media have. And the thing is, that connecting the information, what is collected from different sources can be used to make a very good profile of the targeted person.

And don't think, that if you have to pay for some solution makes it safe. Many of the solutions are free for private users, and that helps to control the sources, what are used to collecting information. Because firms must pay for the solution, that would allow filtering that kind of users away from the tracking lists. This means that intelligence services can target the tracking to private users or firms if the firmware solution is used for illegal activities.

There are many ways to investigate the social connections in social media, and one of them is to send the circular letter to that person and ask to deliver that message to all the social connections. The best way to make this thing working perfectly is to use some texts, what are very sensitive or makes need to show empathy. This is the best way to make people deliver those texts to other persons. This makes the social media very interesting place. And if someone would not want to deliver those circular letters, that will make this person sadistic and cold person in the eyes of other users of the social media.

So this is the short and sad story about the way, to find out the persons, who are members of some community. There is nothing wrong about the circular letters and some kind of stuff. But there is one very disturbing thing. They are always so sensitive, that they are going to disturb me, and the things, that some person would die in cancer are very sad. Sometimes there are asked money by using that kind of pictures and stories. And at the same time, they are causing negative for the people, who really need help, and here I'm writing about cases, where that kind of letters are shared because somebody wants to map the social connections. Those methods are strictly against the ethics and moral of the scientific work. And they are causing problems for people, who are in real trouble.

Media and artificial intelligence

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Selective handling of data means, that in the tomorrow would be possible to use methods, what allows to filter images, what is prohibited to share from the picture, what shared in the social media. This kind of tools like very fast computers and sophisticated computer programs allow the automatized censorship for faces and other things, what danger the person's privacy.

Those systems can also be used to automatized identification of persons, and it can be used to ask people if they want to share their faces in the social media. But it needs the ability to recognize people and this might cause the leak of the security. If hackers can break the control-level of that kind of system, they can use it for tracking the persons. And another problem with this system is that it can be used with Predator- and other combat UAV, what can communicate with central computers of the Internet, and then find those persons by using the location data, and target the weapons to that target.

The system can use nuclear-powered drones for tracking that person, and when there is enough room around this person, would it open fire with missiles. The Predator is very easy to change ans the drone, what uses electric motor and RTG-generator for giving extremely long operational time,  and altitude. Computers can easily calculate the kill radius of the missiles, and open fire when the target is alone in the beach, and the support team or sensitive artificial intelligent program can call the target to the remote position by playing some drug or dealer or another business partner. The profession of the caller can use to make a profile, is the targeted person real criminal. And if the caller is some drug dealer, who calls the target, would the conclusion be, that the man is a criminal.

Only persons, who have given this permission would be seen in the social media, and others faces would be hidden behind the black box. That kind of image recognition system makes possible that person would not need to take even keys from the table when our main character will walk out. Those image recognition systems can use multiple sensors, like retina-scanners and IR-cameras, what also detect the possibility of plastic surgery. And in the wildest dreams, the system can use 3D-X-ray scanners.

Sniffer scanners can detect the form of the skull, and the chemical analyzers can also be used to detect the person. Those "people sniffer" equipment can be modified gas detectors, and they can work like the artificial nose. This kind of equipment work looks like an artificial dog, and they can carry in the wrist pocket. So they can also be used for tracking people from society. The lasers and another kind of stuff can also detect the DNA of the person by use mass-spectroscopy.

That kind of equipment can be real in the future. But when we are turning back to the people, who are denying to share their identity on the Internet, would that cause some other problems, The system can use that information for select people, who wanted to target the surveillance. One very good way to choose persons for intensive surveillance is that they would not allow sharing anything about them on the Internet. That tells the system, that this person has something to hide. And only interesting targets give something for the security service.