![]() ![]() UCLA spokesperson Bill Kisliuk said in an emailed statement that specialized teams are only notified if public posts from UCLA-affiliated accounts contain specific keywords that could indicate a risk of student harm or self-harm, such as those related to campus buildings. (Screen capture by Victoria Li/Daily Bruin senior staff) The correspondence was one of many public records obtained by the Dallas Morning News in their investigation into Detect, or Social Sentinel. A member of UCLA’s Case Management Services emailed an administrator about purchasing Social Sentinel for the Behavioral Intervention Team, one of two entities UCLA stated that responds to alerts from Detect. Emailed communications from 2016 between UCLA administrators, UCLA staff and UCPD suggest the service may have also been used at UC Davis. ![]() Other universities who have purchased contracts with Social Sentinel – which was renamed Detect earlier this year after being acquired by another company – include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Texas at Dallas. The company’s conflicting statements about the intent of the service, as well as some schools’ employment of its artificial intelligence technology to surveil student protests, raised concerns from both students and experts. The university was one of at least 37 colleges and universities identified in a recent investigation by the Dallas Morning News into the use of Social Sentinel, a service schools can use to monitor students’ public social media accounts for potential threats to campus safety. ![]() UCLA has been using a service to monitor social media posts since 2018 without significant public notice. ![]()
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