{"id":2587,"date":"2021-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/facebook-demands-lapd-end-social-media-surveillance-and-use-of-fake-accounts\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:41:14","slug":"facebook-demands-lapd-end-social-media-surveillance-and-use-of-fake-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/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&rsquo;s 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 &ldquo;dummy&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;emerging threats&rdquo; and solve crime by analyzing social media information such as a person&rsquo;s 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company&rsquo;s letter to LA police chief comes after the Guardian revealed that the department partnered with a tech firm that enables undercover spying How LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables spying The software that studies your Facebook friends to predict crimes Facebook is demanding that the Los Angeles police department cease all use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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