Company’s letter to LA
police chief comes after the Guardian revealed that the department partnered with a tech firm that enables undercover spyingHow LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables spyingThe software that studies your
Facebook Friends to predict crimesFacebook is demanding that the
Los Angeles police department cease all use of “dummy” accounts on its platforms and stop collecting data on users for surveillance.
The letter, addressed to the LAPD chief, Michel Moore, on Thursday, comes after the Guardian contacted Facebook about two stories that revealed the department partnered in 2019 with Voyager Labs, a tech company that claims it can predict “emerging threats” and solve crime by analyzing
Social Media information such as a person’s friends, posts and usernames.