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originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: Macenroe82
Then there are smart folks, who use VPNs to protect their identities, False profile names, etc, etc.
Why does a law abiding patriot need to hide their face, identity, profile etc?
originally posted by: AccessDenied
I honestly think somebody took screenshots and reported her. I don't believe for one minute that they are monitoring those groups to that extent. But even in the groups I'm in there are constantly trolls getting in and reporting posts so this isn't much of a stretch. She needs more to analyse her circle of confidence. Just my 2 cents.
originally posted by: shaemac
a reply to: Macenroe82
Why would any woman open a door to strangers or police?
Why would she use her real name online, anywhere?
Why would any woman not be armed and know how to use anything as a weapon?
She is an idiot.
originally posted by: AccessDenied
I don't believe for one minute that they are monitoring those groups to that extent.
Media Sonar’s software is being used by police forces in Toronto, Cleveland and Tampa Bay, and by the Los Angeles County sheriff’s office, to name a few.
The ACLU of California scoured “thousands of pages” of public records and found law-enforcement agencies were secretly acquiring social media spying software.
The investigation also found that police did not receive approval or permission to buy or use the software.
Social-media monitoring software — two U.S. software businesses also have been implicated and banned from social media sites — was used by police to monitor protesters in Ferguson, Mo., and rioters in Baltimore after the killing of unarmed black men by police.
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 beginning this year, the department is adding a new social media surveillance tool: Media Sonar, which can build detailed profiles on individuals and identify links between them. This acquisition increases opportunities for abuse by expanding officers’ ability to conduct wide-ranging social media surveillance.
This has serious implications for people’s privacy and First Amendment rights, especially for communities of color and activists. Social media surveillance can facilitate surveillance of protest activity and police presence at protests, which can chill both online and offline speech.
Police are scrolling through social media to find crime and check up on potential suspects, raising concerns about surveillance in an increasingly online world.
Monitoring public posts on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is a common way police departments across the country collect information about individuals or specific types of activities. Representatives of the Michigan State Police and Detroit Police Department said officers manually search public posts and also feed social media photos to facial recognition algorithms that hunt for similarities between millions of faces collected in police databases.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: Klassified
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: Macenroe82
Then there are smart folks, who use VPNs to protect their identities, False profile names, etc, etc.
Why does a law abiding patriot need to hide their face, identity, profile etc?
Privacy.
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
It seems evident in the history of political activism that you don't have both privacy and a loud public reputation for affecting positive change in the administration.
originally posted by: nugget1
Being of a sound (?) conspiracy mind, I'm sure every comment and every 'click' I make online is being cataloged somewhere, most likely the 'Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center' in Utah. You don't hear much about them anymore, nor Google's huge, mysterious offshore data center.