Shield - The challenge of interpreting Emojis

Nothing to 🙈 here…

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, those little cartoonish symbols are inextricably entrenched in our lives. They are now ubiquitous

History of Emojis

Emojis first debuted back in 1982.

Back then, they were ASCII emoticons but have since evolved into fairly elaborate visual expressions. Today, there are over 3,500 emojis represented in the standard Unicode.

Guess which emoji is number one?

Yup – everywhere around the world, the #1 emoji is 😂 “Laugh Out Loud” with its happy tears and a big smile.

Well, maybe it’s #1 for everyone except Gen Z who have unabashedly and collectively decided that that emoji is just not cool anymore given that it is, “So Millennial.”

Emoji are everywhere Each year, emojis become even more prevalent: not just in our texts, but in our Courts. Back in 2004, the first court case was published.

Since then, there has been a proliferation of civil and criminal cases litigated.

Because monitoring E-Comms with text that interchangeably switches dialects, across multiple channels, and on unapproved devices wasn’t already challenging enough, the ambiguity of expressive characters adds a whole new dimension of vagueness. For compliance officers, it is black or white; there is no room for grey.

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