[HN Gopher] Facebook tells LA police to stop spying on users wit...
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Facebook tells LA police to stop spying on users with fake accounts
Author : LordAtlas
Score : 56 points
Date : 2021-11-20 18:14 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| chmod775 wrote:
| Ah. So something _can_ be both rich and reasonable at the same
| time!
|
| Reality never disappoints.
| atkailash wrote:
| It's only because of the fake accounts they care. If they were
| real people they wouldn't give two shakes of a rat's tail
| vmception wrote:
| It is really interesting how social graphs can be used so easily
| to construct likely accomplices and more
|
| I don't see any issue with this, civilians need to understand it
| is likely. It is comical that Facebook goes to state actors to
| remind them that it's against their terms of service. Suggests
| they don't know or care to know which accounts are fake, only
| that they saw the LAPD manual.
| 1cvmask wrote:
| Meanwhile they supply everything directly to the federal
| government.
| rytcio wrote:
| Facebook just wants them to go through their special channels
| so that they can get paid
| trhway wrote:
| and it would also allow FB to collect better information
| about those police users too who i suppose is a highly
| lucrative targeted advertisement segment for
| guns/steroids/etc and that also provides significant
| information about their social graph.
| bpodgursky wrote:
| Facebook does a lot of things wrong but I doubt they give any
| user data to the federal government they are not coerced into
| providing.
| input_sh wrote:
| May I introduce you to PRISM?
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
| bpodgursky wrote:
| ?
|
| Yes, being ordered and gagged by the US government is
| coercion. Are you familiar with the article you linked to?
| chiefalchemist wrote:
| I think the point being made is, via PRISM data is
| provided on the regular with zero coercion. That is, the
| bar is much lower than (your suggestion of) the need for
| coercion.
|
| Note: Not taking sides. Only trying to clear up the
| doubt.
| tata71 wrote:
| > zero coercion
|
| This is false, although it's reasonable to assume that,
| during the coersion, some specific people or companies do
| roll over out of self-interest.
| chiefalchemist wrote:
| Friend. It's not my position or argument. I was only
| trying to clear up the comms disconnect.
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| Facebook has no choice in the matter. Regardless- PRISM is
| run by the NSA to conduct court-approved foreign
| surveillance.
| MeinBlutIstBlau wrote:
| Congress approved national spying via the patriot act.
| That must mean surveillance is okay right since it's been
| supported by the courts. Right?
| onli wrote:
| Not really court-approved, not exclusively foreign. But
| NSA.
| pwned1 wrote:
| lol
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