Will Baltimore Use Social Media to Prosecute Rioters?
"I don't think that there is a strong popular push in Baltimore for further rioting arrests," says David Jaros, an assistant law professor at the University of Baltimore. "I have a very strong suspicion that the mayor's comments about using social media to arrest more rioters is something that is going to quickly fall by the wayside as not necessarily the most effective use of resources."
Baltimore police wouldn't need to rely solely on tips from the community and have previously used facial recognition software to identify suspects by comparing online images to more than 2.1 million pictures on law enforcement databases.
Services such as NetClean are also developing ways to help police track down offenders by helping identify connections between crimes and media posted on social networks. NetClean product manager Johann Hofmann says metadata from images and video can show the exact GPS coordinates of where an image was taken, the serial number of the camera being used, and the exact time the shot was taken. The service also uses a Microsoft facial recognition tool called PhotoDNA, which can help match faces in social media postings to images in a large database. The service, according to Hofmann, is already being used in Baltimore and other jurisdictions around the world in child abuse investigations involving online images.
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