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Legal Aid Demands Info on NYC’s Use of Social Monitoring

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Legal Aid Demands Info on NYC’s Use of Social Monitoring

 

"MANHATTAN (CN) — The Legal Aid Society has sued the Manhattan district attorney for refusing to divulge whether he buys information from social-media companies as a way to track civil rights protesters and conduct other “social monitoring.”

Though the district attorney’s office is the only defendant in the Article 78 Petition, the nonprofit Legal Aid Society specifically asks for information on “the extent to which the state of New York and New York City employ the services of Geofedia, Inc., Media Sonar Technologies Inc., and X1 Discover, Inc.”

“These companies collect data from social media websites and applications and then sell that data to government law-enforcement agencies,” the complaint continues..."

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