This month,a delegation of US government officials met with Silicon Valley executives to discuss battling terrorism online. One understanding was an algorithm that could scan social sites for signs of radicalization, and assign people a risk value. But even if a terrorism algorithm could work, or is it legal? Bob talks with Karen Greenberg,director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, approximately the red flags this kind of an effort raises.
Source: wnyc.org