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Social Media Intelligence

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Enter the Fediverse

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Personalised online ads enables invisible - and illegal - discrimination

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Facebook research targeted insecure youth

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Experts object to US Immigration & Customs Enforcement’s “Extreme Vetting Initiative” that will rely on AI

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US Immigration & Customs Enforcement used social media to monitor protests opposing Trump administration policies

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US government used social media to monitor journalists and advocates working with migrants

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Private intelligence company monitored people protesting Trump’s family separation policies

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Saudi Arabian government-backed Absher app lets men monitor and control women’s travel

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Bahrain threatens crackdown on followers of anti-government social media accounts

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Never heard of TrueCaller? They might have heard about you. Here is how you can unlist yourself

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"Betrayed by an app she had never heard of" - How TrueCaller is endangering journalists

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Tender revealing Israeli National Insurance Institute was trying to access social media dropped

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Woman jailed after posting pictures of herself in Ibiza

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Woman gets her benefits withdrawn for looking too happy on Facebook

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Researchers scraped videos of transgender vloggers off YouTube without their knowledge to train facial recognition software

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The use of social media monitoring by local authorities – who is a target?

Did you know that your location could be made public when you post on apps?
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Women’s Aid and Privacy International launch digital information cards to help women stay safe on Valentine’s Day

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Chinese government social media programme seeks to distract the public

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Social media sites push back against police

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Governments adopt social media as tool for surveillance and propaganda

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Walmart spies on workforce to oppose union organising

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Mall of America used fake Facebook account to surveil Black Lives Matter activists

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Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement abandons machine learning to identify terrorists

National School Walkout - Iowa, 2018
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Planning and participating in a protest could get you under surveillance: three technologies you should know about

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Social media intelligence (SOCMINT) explainer

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Facebook investigates whether Crimson Hexagon violated surveillance policies

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Harvard Freshman Deported at US Border Because of Friends’ Social Media Posts

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Predictim offers US parents risk analysis of babysitters