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If that's not bad enough, here's the lovely bit:
The LAPD's social media user guide encourages officers to monitor social media but imposes few restrictions on the practice, Dwyer wrote. The guide encourages officers to use "fictitious online personas" to conduct investigations and says that using these fake personas "does not constitute online undercover activity."
"Few limitations offset this broad authority: officers need not document the searches they conduct, their purpose, or the justification," she wrote. "They are not required to seek supervisory approval, and the guide offers no standards for the types of cases that warrant social media surveillance. While officers are instructed not to conduct social media surveillance for personal, illicit, or illegal purposes, they seem otherwise to have complete discretion over whom to surveil, how broadly to track their online activity, and how long to monitor them."
Hottie in the red Camaro convertible? Could be linked to some gang bangers a couple of blocks over! REALLY! It's not stalking, it's an investigative lead! Honest!
You don't have to give an officer this social media information, just like you don't have to consent to an officer searching your car without a warrant. If they tell you to stay and they're going to produce one, tell them you're going to call for an attorney and do so while you're waiting. If you're arrested with probable cause, bit of a different matter.
It's possible several other law enforcement orgs are trying to collect social media info. In the case of LAPD, it's being fed into a massive surveillance database called Palantir. Palantir is a somewhat shadowy company created by the co-founder of Paypal, Peter Thiel, and has an interesting and complex Wikipedia page.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/lapd-officers-collect-social-media-account-info-from-people-they-detain/
If that's not bad enough, here's the lovely bit:
The LAPD's social media user guide encourages officers to monitor social media but imposes few restrictions on the practice, Dwyer wrote. The guide encourages officers to use "fictitious online personas" to conduct investigations and says that using these fake personas "does not constitute online undercover activity."
"Few limitations offset this broad authority: officers need not document the searches they conduct, their purpose, or the justification," she wrote. "They are not required to seek supervisory approval, and the guide offers no standards for the types of cases that warrant social media surveillance. While officers are instructed not to conduct social media surveillance for personal, illicit, or illegal purposes, they seem otherwise to have complete discretion over whom to surveil, how broadly to track their online activity, and how long to monitor them."
Hottie in the red Camaro convertible? Could be linked to some gang bangers a couple of blocks over! REALLY! It's not stalking, it's an investigative lead! Honest!
You don't have to give an officer this social media information, just like you don't have to consent to an officer searching your car without a warrant. If they tell you to stay and they're going to produce one, tell them you're going to call for an attorney and do so while you're waiting. If you're arrested with probable cause, bit of a different matter.
It's possible several other law enforcement orgs are trying to collect social media info. In the case of LAPD, it's being fed into a massive surveillance database called Palantir. Palantir is a somewhat shadowy company created by the co-founder of Paypal, Peter Thiel, and has an interesting and complex Wikipedia page.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/lapd-officers-collect-social-media-account-info-from-people-they-detain/
