{"id":3713,"date":"2021-11-17T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/17\/exclusive-lapd-partnered-with-tech-firm-that-enables-secretive-online-spying\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:39:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:39:26","slug":"exclusive-lapd-partnered-with-tech-firm-that-enables-secretive-online-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/17\/exclusive-lapd-partnered-with-tech-firm-that-enables-secretive-online-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records show LA police trialed social media surveillance tech from Voyager Labs, which claims its software can predict crimes and help monitor private messages<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/17\/police-surveillance-technology-voyager\">Revealed: the software that studies your Facebook friends to predict who may commit a crime<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Los Angeles police department pursued a contract with a controversial technology company that could enable police to use fake social media accounts to surveil civilians and claimed its algorithms can identify people who may commit crimes in the future.<\/p>\n<p>A cache of internal LAPD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/lapd-social-media-monitoring-documents\">documents<\/a> obtained through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/analysis-opinion\/lapd-documents-show-what-one-social-media-surveillance-firm-promises\">public records requests<\/a> by the Brennan Center for Justice, a non-profit organization, and shared with the Guardian, reveal that LAPD in 2019 trialed social media surveillance software from the analytics company Voyager Labs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/17\/los-angeles-police-surveillance-social-media-voyager\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3b018632cab88e9318ad12af6ace0268eeee1d19\/0_0_4770_2862\/master\/4770.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=28d26a69fb12e1ef57d8458b0da0153e\" title=\"Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying\" \/>Records show LA police trialed social media surveillance tech from Voyager Labs, which claims its software can predict crimes and help monitor private messages<br \/>\nRevealed: the software that studies your Facebook friends to predict who may commit a crime<br \/>\nThe Los Angeles police department pursued a contract with a controversial technology company that could enable police to use fake social media accounts to surveil civilians and claimed its algorithms can identify people who may commit crimes in the future.<br \/>\nA cache of internal LAPD documents obtained through public records requests by the Brennan Center for Justice, a non-profit organization, and shared with the Guardian, reveal that LAPD in 2019 trialed social media surveillance software from the analytics company Voyager Labs. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records show LA police trialed social media surveillance tech from Voyager Labs, which claims its software can predict crimes and help monitor private messages Revealed: the software that studies your Facebook friends to predict who may commit a crime The Los Angeles police department pursued a contract with a controversial technology company that could enable &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/17\/exclusive-lapd-partnered-with-tech-firm-that-enables-secretive-online-spying\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}