{"id":24045,"date":"2016-10-12T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24045"},"modified":"2016-10-12T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:05:09","slug":"wapo-facebook-twitter-and-instagram-sent-feeds-that-helped-police-track-minorities-in-ferguson-and-baltimore-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24045","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2016\/10\/11\/facebook-twitter-and-instagram-sent-feeds-that-helped-police-track-minorities-in-ferguson-and-baltimore-aclu-says\/\">Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says<\/a> by Craig Timberg and Elizabeth Dwoskin: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u2014 often including the locations, photos and other information posted publicly by users \u2014 to Geofeedia, a Chicago-based company that says it analyzes social media posts to deliver real-time surveillance information to help 500 law enforcement agencies track and respond to crime. The social media companies cut off Geofeedia\u2019s access to the streams of user data in recent weeks after the ACLU discovered them and alerted the companies about looming public exposure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says by Craig Timberg and Elizabeth Dwoskin: A powerful surveillance program that police used for tracking racially charged protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24046,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045\/revisions\/24046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}