The group says machine learning can help identify patterns in online activity.
The cell phones, tablets and laptops left behind by veterans who died by suicide may offer insight that could help prevent future military suicides, according to a nonprofit dedicated to analyzing the data from the devices.
That kind of loss is something David McDaniel, whose son Conor died by suicide at the age of 26, knows all too well. He followed their direction, but on the car ride home, an officer called him and said Conor was dead after he fired upon sheriff's deputies and the deputies returned fire and killed him.
Ford says the nonprofit uses machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, to analyze texts and notes in order to determine sentiment or emotional tone, such as anger or desperation. He says they can also track phone usage of the deceased veterans to monitor their past sleep cycles and trace their past geo-locations.
When asked about privacy concerns of collecting data, Ford said it's something they think about daily.
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