Report: Social media surveillance unfairly targeted Muslims

BOSTON (AP) " A social media monitoring tool used by the Boston Police Department to identify potential threats swept up the posts of people using the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter and a lawmaker's Facebook update about racial inequality, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.The ACLU says in a report based on documents obtained through a public records request that the police department's use of Geofeedia to mine the internet [...]


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