{"id":3745,"date":"2021-11-19T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T08:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/facebook-demands-lapd-end-social-media-surveillance-and-use-of-fake-accounts\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T09:36:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T08:36:52","slug":"facebook-demands-lapd-end-social-media-surveillance-and-use-of-fake-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/facebook-demands-lapd-end-social-media-surveillance-and-use-of-fake-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook demands LAPD end social media surveillance and use of fake accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company\u2019s letter to LA police chief comes after the Guardian revealed that the department partnered with a tech firm that enables undercover spying<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/17\/los-angeles-police-surveillance-social-media-voyager\">How LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables spying<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/17\/police-surveillance-technology-voyager\">The software that studies your Facebook friends to predict crimes<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook is demanding that the Los Angeles police department cease all use of \u201cdummy\u201d accounts on its platforms and stop collecting data on users for surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAPD-Letter.pdf\">letter<\/a>, addressed to the LAPD chief, Michel Moore, on Thursday, comes after the Guardian contacted Facebook about two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/17\/police-surveillance-technology-voyager\">stories<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/17\/los-angeles-police-surveillance-social-media-voyager\">revealed<\/a> the department partnered in 2019 with Voyager Labs, a tech company that claims it can predict \u201cemerging threats\u201d and solve crime by analyzing social media information such as a person\u2019s friends, posts and usernames.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/18\/facebook-lapd-social-media-surveillance-fake-accounts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/14060b962c34fd5146a64a20b85744ef39256e66\/0_378_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0e2bdb627702ecd6836c203704ac96a3\" title=\"Facebook demands LAPD end social media surveillance and use of fake accounts\" \/>Company\u2019s letter to LA police chief comes after the Guardian revealed that the department partnered with a tech firm that enables undercover spying<\/p>\n<p>How LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables spying<br \/>\nThe software that studies your Facebook friends to predict crimes<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is demanding that the Los Angeles police department cease all use of \u201cdummy\u201d accounts on its platforms and stop collecting data on users for surveillance.<br \/>\nThe letter, addressed to the LAPD chief, Michel Moore, on Thursday, comes after the Guardian contacted Facebook about two stories that revealed the department partnered in 2019 with Voyager Labs, a tech company that claims it can predict \u201cemerging threats\u201d and solve crime by analyzing social media information such as a person\u2019s friends, posts and usernames. 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