Geofeedia, as it is alleged, was using publicly available user information to sell to law enforcement agents. We would certainly not know if Geofeedia had a commercial agreement with these social media platform to share data, including private data. We can only rely on the communiqué coming from the social media platforms. I would swallow my head if they incriminate themselves.
But the kink of the matter is how privacy and data protection has become a big issue in our times. We the users have put ourselves in a position where we share so much online, without considering the consequences. Apart from privacy settings, and encryption, the social media platforms have no control on the PUBLIC data we post on their platforms. Even without Geofeedia, the security agents can still have bots, even human data entry operators scoring publicly accessible data from the forums.
We are well advised.
On 13 October 2016 at 13:26, Harry Delano via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hey Ebele,That sounds like another "sneaky" case of getting caught with hands in the cookie jar. How long did this go on before you could flag it up..? Did it have to await feedback from a third party for Fb to realize this, or are there internal controls and checks to monitor what each of the API's are feeding into or collecting from the huge amount of data available..?Some clarity would suffice..Regards,HarrySent from my BlackBerry 10smartphone
19/api-defined/ for definition) that allowed it to build programs into FB. This allowed it to write programs targeting publicly available information on FB platform. That means-no private chats, no private groups, no data that users haven't made publicly available. The point of APIs in this context is SUPPOSED to be so advertisers (from small business to nonprofits to Andela, etc.) can send ads to targeted users. This group completely violated our policies and used their API access to target publicly available info to send to police. FB has kicked them off our platform. As you can imagine, there are many conversations now about this. But key to know that FB did NOT and does not sell user data; that this was a completely unauthorized use of our developer platform, that we rectified this as soon as we were notified, that the access was not to user data, but essentially a program that allowed them to target public info on Facebook. It's still unacceptable, and something we are taking extremely seriously.
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On Oct 12, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram provided user data access to Geofeedia, a developer of a social media monitoring product that we have seen marketed to law enforcement as a tool to monitor activists and protesters. We are pleased that after we reported our findings to the companies, Instagram cut off Geofeedia’s access to public user posts, and Facebook has cut its access to a topic-based feed of public user posts.More here: https://www.aclu.org/blog/
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