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When Social Listening Becomes Social Surveillance
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 by Sameer Ahmed Khan
I want to tell you about two tools that do the exact same thing.
The first tool scans Facebook, X, and YouTube. It reads public posts. It analyzes them for sentiment, emotional tone, and trending patterns. It tells you what people feel, what they care about, and what they are saying about you.
Marketers call this social listening. It is how brands understand their...
Hacking into unsecured webcams is too easy
Thursday, June 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Are You Being Watched?No other exploit is as vicious or expedient with its results as camera activation malware. An adversary is virtually guaranteed a successful blackmail or espionage campaign when you have compiled hours upon hours of video footage of a powerful executive or government official “satisfying their intellectual curiosity” in front of their computer, in ...
Sickweather Opens API to Developers Creating Health Care Apps
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sickweather has created a socially sourced real-time map of illness and has recently opened their cognitive API for disease surveillance to outside developers who are creating health care apps. Sickweather’s API offers an emerging artificial intelligence called Nightingale which is Sickweather’s data science engine for classifying public reports of illness from soc...
