From The Brennan Center for Justice:
LAPD Documents Reveal Use of Social Media Monitoring Tools
The Los Angeles Police Department authorizes its officers to engage in extensive surveillance of social media without internal monitoring of the nature or effectiveness of the searches, according to the results of a public records request filed by the Brennan Center.
And it looks like this is just the beginning. More:
The documents we’re releasing were obtained as part of our effort to increase transparency and accountability for how police monitor people on social media. To that end, we filed public records act requests with the police in Los Angeles and other major cities.
And here is where the LAPD goes overboard:
Documents also show that the LAPD instructs its officers to broadly collect social media account information from those they encounter in person using field interview (FI) cards:
Much much more at the site. Downright Orwellian if you ask me. What would happen to me? I have email but closed my farceb**k and twItter and have no other accounts. Would they pressure me - thinking that I am not coming clean? Crap like this is sliding under the radar.
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