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Firm Linked to Social Media Surveillance Loses Data Access

October 12, 2016

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Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday cut access to certain data for an analytics firm which according to a civil liberties group helped law enforcement track protesters in social movements.

The announcements came after the American Civil Liberties Union reported that the analytics firm Geofeedia had been marketing its services to local police agencies to help track activists using social media posts and location data.

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