Joseph Cox reports: On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of California announced that, after the organization obtained revealing documents through public records access requests, Facebook and Instagram have cut off data access to a company that sells surveillance products for law enforcement. Twitter has also curbed the surveillance product’s access. The product, called Geofeedia, is used by law…
Category: Online
DHS Tells Congress How & Why It’s Monitoring Facebook, Twitter, Blogs
TN Note: The intelligence community keeps saying that they are not collecting random data on American Citizens and incidents like this keep popping up proving that they are brazen liars. Remember that DHS is not isolated from the rest of the intelligence community; rather, it reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence for everything it…
Can racist tweets help predict hate crimes? L.A. is about to find out
Richard Winton reports: Can police prevent hate crimes by monitoring racist banter on social media? Researchers will be testing this concept over the next three years in Los Angeles, marking a new frontier in efforts by law enforcement to predict and prevent crimes. During a three-year experiment, British researchers working with the Santa Monica-based Rand…
UK: Cumbria council’s snooping rulebook amended to allow covert Facebook surveillance
Council bosses in Cumbria can use Facebook to snoop on residents they suspect of committing an offence. New guidelines have been added to Cumbria County Council’s surveillance rule book on the issue and approved by leaders. The regulations allow county council staff to glean information from personal social media account pages as an alternative to carrying…