[kictanet] Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Share Data with Location-based Social Media Surveillance Startup

Fri Oct 14 19:26:40 EAT 2016

Ngigi, has hit the nail on the head.

Everything else is "white noise".

If access to the API equals access to 'public' info then why all this...

On 14 Oct 2016 18:35, "Ebele Okobi via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> This is not a legal issue.  It's against the rules of Facebook's developer
> agreement for someone to pose as a commercial developer and then sell
> information it gathered based upon APIs targeting publicly available
> information to police. None of this is illegal-it's just really creepy and
> against our terms.
>
> In answer to your last question, absolutely not.
>
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> On Oct 14, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Ebele,
>
> There is something about this that I am not understanding.
>
> If the APIs only allows a developer to access *publicly* available
> information that is in the FB Platform, why would it be illegal for law
> enforcement / intelligence to even access it?
>
> It can *only* be a problem if the API allows accessing *private
> *information from FB users.
>
> Which then brings us to an even *bigger problem*; is FB allowing
> developers to access our private information and messaging on FB for
> commercial purposes?
>
> Regards
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> On Oct 12 2016, at 8:58 pm, Ebele Okobi via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Yes-this is a mess, and this article isn't an accurate report.
>> Basically-this was a private company that set itself up as a developer-same
>> as, say, Candy Crush makers or those quiz things about your friends on FB.
>> As a developer, it got access to API (see here
>> http://readwrite.com/2013/09/19/api-defined/
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__readwrite.com_2013_09_19_api-2Ddefined_&d=DQMGAA&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=ArvepG4_wcNu_X9xi3nb_Xa9WsGLVfmK6mwPdVONOTE&m=ugY2LOWQPr3HVkgrJeaJsIdXO902T0vxQWS5mgsAFco&s=Mudkp_42mpAW4RqNFznaslWco7xHQOGfnxmHTYDfgbA&e=>
>> for definition) that allowed it to build programs into FB. This allowed it
>> to write programs targeting publicly available information on FB platform.
>> That means-no private chats, no private groups, no data that users haven't
>> made publicly available. The point of APIs in this context is SUPPOSED to
>> be so advertisers (from small business to nonprofits to Andela, etc.) can
>> send ads to targeted users. This group completely violated our policies and
>> used their API access to target publicly available info to send to police.
>> FB has kicked them off our platform. As you can imagine, there are many
>> conversations now about this. But key to know that FB did NOT and does not
>> sell user data; that this was a completely unauthorized use of our
>> developer platform, that  we rectified this as soon as we were notified,
>> that the access was not to user data, but essentially a program that
>> allowed them to target public info on Facebook. It's still unacceptable,
>> and something we are taking extremely seriously.
>>
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>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> *The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter,
>> Facebook, and Instagram provided user data access to Geofeedia, a developer
>> of a social media monitoring product that we have seen marketed to law
>> enforcement as a tool to monitor activists and protesters. We are pleased
>> that after we reported our findings to the companies, Instagram cut off
>> Geofeedia’s access to public user posts, and Facebook has cut its access to
>> a topic-based feed of public user posts.*
>>
>> More here: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/facebook-
>> instagram-and-twitter-provided-data-access-surveillance-product-marketed
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