A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.
A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.
An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.
here's what happened in between.
Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.
she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."
police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.
This means:
Snapchat scans private messages.
Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.
Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.
in under an hour.
Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.
you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.
the message was private.
it wasn't.
Literalmente juiz e promotor se orgulhando por ter combinado por whatsapp como iriam agir num processo para condenar o reu, e culpando o STF pelo processo ter sido anulado.
O poste mija no cachorro.
"- Doutor, o senhor esta preso por estupr0, mas antes de levarmos o senhor, vai querer uma agua, um café? Se preferir lhe preparo um lanche pro senhor nao ficar com fome no trajeto ate a delegacia, pode ser?"
A doméstica ficou 55 anos trabalhando sem salário. A família foi condenada a pagar R$ 50 mil e uma casa avaliada em R$ 150 mil como indenização.
Na prática, ter um escravo no Brasil custa cerca de R$ 300 por mês.