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| − | In the past few years, civil liberties advocates have uncovered the many ways that police use social media to conduct bulk and targeted surveillance. Their intelligence analysts have the capabilities to monitor content and location data on a variety of platforms, and these capabilities have been used against protected First Amendment activities | + | In the past few years, civil liberties advocates have uncovered the many ways that police use social media to conduct bulk and targeted surveillance. Their intelligence analysts have the capabilities to monitor content and location data on a variety of platforms, and these capabilities have been used against protected First Amendment activities by groups like Black Lives Matter, as well as disproportionately used to target and prosecute people of color and Muslims through discriminatory keyword searches. Abi Hassen joins us this week to tell us more about how the police use social media and what considerations we should make when advising our patrons about harm reduction. |
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