Police Use Surveillance Tool to Scan Social Media, A.C.L.U. Says – The New York Times

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Police Use Surveillance Tool to Scan Social Media, A.C.L.U. Says

Geofeedia, a company in Chicago, has used data from Facebook, Twitter and several other networks to aid law enforcement officials in monitoring protesters, the A.C.L.U. says.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/technology/aclu-facebook-twitter-instagram-geofeedia.html

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram say they have cut off Geofeedia’s access to their information. But civil liberties advocates criticized the companies for lax oversight and challenged them to create better mechanisms to monitor how their data is being used.