company:geofeedia

Facebook et Instagram ont nourri la surveillance de manifestants, Twitter plus protecteur
▻http://www.numerama.com/politique/201154-facebook-instagram-et-twitter-avaient-nourri-un-outil-de-surveillan

Facebook et sa filiale Instagram ont dû résilier le contrat qu’ils avaient signé avec Geofeedia, une société spécialisée dans la surveillance géolocalisée des réseaux sociaux, qui louait ses services à des services de police. Twitter est le seul qui dispose d’une politique interdisant l’utilisation de ses API à des fins de surveillance, et à l’avoir fait respecter. La branche californienne de l’American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a dévoilé mardi que Facebook, sa filiale Instagram et dans une moindre (...)

#Facebook #Instagram #smartphone #profiling #Twitter #activisme #surveillance #web (...)

##FBI

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/11/facebook-twitter-and-instagram-sent-feeds-that-helped-police-track-m

A powerful surveillance program that police used for tracking racially charged protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., relied on special feeds of user data provided by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, according to an ACLU report Tuesday. The companies provided the data — often including the locations, photos and other information posted publicly by users — to Geofeedia, a Chicago-based company that says it analyzes social media posts to deliver real-time surveillance information to help 500 (...)

#Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #Geofeedia #profiling #géolocalisation #réseau_social #activisme #web #surveillance (...)

##ACLU

Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product Marketed to Target Activists of Color
▻https://www.aclunc.org/blog/facebook-instagram-and-twitter-provided-data-access-surveillance-product-mar

The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram provided user data access to Geofeedia, a developer of a social media monitoring product that we have seen marketed to law enforcement as a tool to monitor activists and protesters. We are pleased that after we reported our findings to the companies, Instagram cut off Geofeedia’s access to public user posts, and Facebook has cut its access to a topic-based feed of public user posts. Twitter has also (...)

#Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #Geofeedia #profiling #réseau_social #activisme #web #surveillance #ACLU (...)

##géolocalisation

ACLU finds social media sites gave data to company tracking black protesters
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/aclu-geofeedia-facebook-twitter-instagram-black-lives-matter

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have previously provided users’ data to a software company that aids police surveillance programs and targets protesters of color, according to government records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU revealed on Tuesday that the technology corporations gave “special access” to Geofeedia, a controversial social media monitoring company that partners with law enforcement and has marketed its services as a tool to track Black Lives Matter (...)

#Facebook #Twitter #Instagram #profiling #web #activisme #surveillance #ACLU #Geofeedia

Twitter et Facebook coupent l’accès à leurs données pour une société qui surveillait des manifestants
▻http://www.journaldequebec.com/2016/10/11/twitter-et-facebook-coupent-lacces-a-leurs-donnees-pour-une-societe

Twitter et Facebook ont coupé l’accès à certaines de leurs données à une société d’analyse de données qui, selon un organisme de défense des droits civiques, aidait la police à surveiller des manifestants lors de mouvements contestataires. L’American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) « a obtenu des documents montrant que Twitter, Facebook et Instagram ont donné un accès à des données sur leurs utilisateurs à Geofeedia, le développeur d’un produit de surveillance des réseaux sociaux qui a été vendu aux forces de (...)

#Facebook #Twitter #Instagram #Geofeedia #profiling #géolocalisation #réseau_social #activisme #web #surveillance (...)

##ACLU

You are being followed: The business of social media surveillance
▻http://littlesis.org/news/2016/05/18/you-are-being-followed-the-business-of-social-media-surveillance

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Started in 2011 by Phil Harris, a businessperson with stints at Priceline and Match.com, #Geofeedia allows users to target a geographic area on their computer and scoop up the public social media posts of everybody within the target range. The posts are harvested from the companies with which Geofeedia has patents, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Yik Yak, Seno-Weibo, and others. In addition to targeting a geographical region, users can also use Geofeedia to search social media posts based on people and keywords.

[...] In addition to touting its utility for for marketers as well emergency first responders, Harris also said in a radio interview that Geofeedia specialized in monitoring social movements like the Arab Spring and anti-austerity protests in Greece. Company representatives also suggested that police testing out Geofeedia software use it to monitor protests in Ferguson, Missouri in November 2014. Another representative from the company confirmed to LittleSis that the software was used in 2014 and 2015 to monitor Black Lives Matter protests at the Mall of America, whose owner, Canada-based Triple Five Group, contracts with Geofeedia.

#surveillance #réseaux_sociaux #police