Post by High Priestess on Oct 9, 2017 14:51:14 GMT
Airbnb recently purchased Trooly
In June, Airbnb acquired Trooly for an undisclosed sum. It’s part of its investment in troubleshooting, along with people such as Nick Shapiro, a former deputy chief of staff at the CIA who joined Airbnb in 2015 as global head of trust and risk management. “Earning and keeping trust will always be a core part of any functional society,” Shapiro says.
“Trooly’s machine learning software will now mine three sources of public and permissible data,” Baveja explains. “First, public records such as birth and marriage certificates, money laundering watchlists and the sex offender register. Any global register that is public and digitised is available to us.” Then there is a super-focused crawl of the deep web: “It’s still the internet but hidden; the pages are not indexed by typical search engines.” So who uses it? “Hate communities. Paedophiles. Guns. It’s where the weird people live on the internet.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/07/can-technology-help-you-pick-best-babysitter-trust-online-safety-checks
Is this helpful to hosts, or will it make hosts more passive and naive, inclined to think they don't have to screen guests at all because "Airbnb does that." Some hosts already think Airbnb screens all guests...the purchase of Trooly could increase the number who have that impression.
I wonder how many so-called "bad people" use their real names when they interact online. If they don't use their names, how is Trooly finding them? I'm concerned about the level of spying going on here. Ostensibly the spying and prying done by Trooly is for a "good cause." But it could just as well be for an unethical cause.
In June, Airbnb acquired Trooly for an undisclosed sum. It’s part of its investment in troubleshooting, along with people such as Nick Shapiro, a former deputy chief of staff at the CIA who joined Airbnb in 2015 as global head of trust and risk management. “Earning and keeping trust will always be a core part of any functional society,” Shapiro says.
“Trooly’s machine learning software will now mine three sources of public and permissible data,” Baveja explains. “First, public records such as birth and marriage certificates, money laundering watchlists and the sex offender register. Any global register that is public and digitised is available to us.” Then there is a super-focused crawl of the deep web: “It’s still the internet but hidden; the pages are not indexed by typical search engines.” So who uses it? “Hate communities. Paedophiles. Guns. It’s where the weird people live on the internet.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/07/can-technology-help-you-pick-best-babysitter-trust-online-safety-checks
Is this helpful to hosts, or will it make hosts more passive and naive, inclined to think they don't have to screen guests at all because "Airbnb does that." Some hosts already think Airbnb screens all guests...the purchase of Trooly could increase the number who have that impression.
I wonder how many so-called "bad people" use their real names when they interact online. If they don't use their names, how is Trooly finding them? I'm concerned about the level of spying going on here. Ostensibly the spying and prying done by Trooly is for a "good cause." But it could just as well be for an unethical cause.
