The webapp utilizes a query format for requests, wherein filtered variables are specified by setting the variable to the requested filtered variable, and requested variables are indicated by specifying the value of the reqVar variable.
These include Group analytics, membership request filtering, removed member clean-up, scheduled posts and group-to-group linking.
Membership Request Filtering: Facebook already launched the ability to gate Group membership with a screening questionnaire to make sure the potential admit isn't a troll or will dilute the community.
Only occasionally did a curriculum request filter down from the top, like the campaign for Green English.
The committee of MPs and peers said the danger in this request filter was that it would enable large-scale data-mining or fishing expeditions to be carried out.
The legislation is also expected to introduce a "request filter" – where many argue the real privacy dangers lie – which would enable the police and security services to search the mountain of personal data held by the internet companies.
The plan was for lots of different companies to hold the information, and for there to be a "request filter" that would mean the police, and security agents, and Government could get the information when they wanted it.
In doing so they leave the door wide open to the introduction of the snooper's charter, which involves the mass harvesting of personal communications data and the use of automated data-mining techniques through a "request filter" to sift through the haystack to find the proverbial needles.
But it is fairly obvious that if the request filter asks for the IP addresses of all the mobile phones in Trafalgar Square last Thursday at 12.30pm then the results, when matched to their owners, are going to throw up a lot of intrusive answers.
But its plans to beef up data retention include a "request filter", which could allow police officers, tax inspectors, the security services and other officials to trawl for information across privately-owned databases in order to build up a picture of suspects' internet browsing habits, contacts and movements.
Google was criticised by the committee for its "totally unconvincing" objection to requests to filter its search results.
