Puerto Rico Targeted Student Journalists’ Facebook Data
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/01/19/puerto-rico-university-protests-facebook-surveillance
As seven University of Puerto Rico students prepare to face trial in February for participating in a nonviolent protest more than two years ago, documents released to their defense attorneys reveal that Facebook granted the island’s Justice Department access to a trove of private information from student news publications. The department’s sweeping search warrant was part of a hunt for crimes committed by members of the youth anti-austerity movement, and it has raised fears among civil (...)