The American Civil Liberties Union has discovered that a data analyzer was collecting feeds from social media sites Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and supplying that information to law enforcement agencies, which then used it to surveil people who had participated in protests in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, The Washington Post reports. “The companies provided the data — often including the locations, photos and other information posted publicly by users — to Geofeedia, a Chicago-based company that says it analyzes social media posts to deliver real-time surveillance information to help 500 law enforcement agencies track and respond to crime,” the report states. The companies have since restricted Geofeedia’s access to their information after the ACLU notified them of its discovery, Gizmodo reports.
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