Criminal Intelligence Surveillance And Monitoring On Social Media: Cases Of Cyber-Trafficking
Keywords
Cyber-Trafficking; Emotion analysis; Intelligence gathering and analysis; Social media; Social media analytics; Visualization; Web search; Web-based surveillance and monitoring
Abstract
Cyber-Trafficking is the illegal transport of humans, drugs, weapons, or goods by means of Internet-enabled electronic devices. Currently, there is a lack of surveillance and understanding of the rapidly growing social concern about cyber-Trafficking (CT). This paper describes the Cyber-Trafficking Surveillance System (CyTraSS) and provides preliminary findings of using the system to monitor CT social media discussions. CyTraSS supports flexible collection, analysis, and visualization of social media content, user linkage, and temporal features. The CyTraSS database contains a focused collection of over 2,318,691 social media messages posted by over 740,070 users who discussed about trafficking crimes and issues. CyTraSS supports keyword search, sentiment analysis, message statistics summarization, and influential leader identification. Emotion expressed in social media messages is extracted and aggregated quantitatively to indicate community mood. We examined three use cases about a sex trafficker identified by a flight attendant, Federal use of private prisons, and trafficking cases related to Beijing. These time-sensitive incidents are highly-relevant to CT and were identified by using clues provided by CyTraSS. The results have strong implications for understanding CT concern on social media.
Publication Date
8-8-2017
Publication Title
2017 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics: Security and Big Data, ISI 2017
Number of Pages
191-193
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISI.2017.8004908
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
85030226220 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85030226220
STARS Citation
Chung, Wingyan; Mustaine, Elizabeth; and Zeng, Daniel, "Criminal Intelligence Surveillance And Monitoring On Social Media: Cases Of Cyber-Trafficking" (2017). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 7045.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/7045