Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat rating’

http://socialnetworkingnews.org/cops-scan-social-media-to-help-assess-your-threat-rating/

A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system. Today’s professional police forces — where officers in even one-stoplight towns might have body armor and mine-resistant vehicles — already raise concerns.

Yet new data-mining technologies can now provide police with vast amounts of surveillance information and could radically increase police power. Policing can be increasingly targeted at specific people and neighborhoods — with potentially serious inequitable effects.

Source: blogs.reuters.com

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