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Social Media Analytics, Meet Big Brother

The American Civil Liberties Union recently uncovered evidence that led Twitter, Facebook and its Instagram subsidiary to stop sharing data with Geofeedia, a firm accused of improperly collecting social media data on protest groups, and sharing that information with numerous law enforcement agencies. Geofeedia, a developer of location-based analytics, had been marketing its technology to law enforcement agencies. It was used for such purposes as monitoring Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, according to the ACLU. The ACLU of Northern California uncovered the practice after requesting public records information from 63 law enforcement agencies in California. The documents revealed that Instagram had provided Geofeedia access to streams of user posts, called the “Instagram API,” until that practice was terminated last month, according to Matt Cagle, technology and civil liberties policy attorney for the ACLU of Northern California. The d

Pakistani Hacker Gains Access to Indian GPS Servers with Realtime Info on Police Vehicles

In a first of its kind incident, a Pakistani Hacker has gained access to Indian GPS Servers that contain the real time information of official vehicles of various Indian departments, including Indian Police. Named as “Fakir” of Pakistan haxors Crew, the Pakistani hacker claims to have gained the access to the said servers and maintains that he has control over Indian Police vehicles at the moment. Pakistani hacker made these revelations at a time when  cyber war between India and Pakistan  has intensified and both sides are exploring all possible opportunities to defect the opponents’ critical infrastructure. This, however, is first of its kind hacking where a Pakistani has gained access to real time information of one of the most critical departments of India. While speaking with ProPakistani, Fakir claimed that he can get real time location, movement directions, driving speed or any other kind of info on these vehicles in real time. “I can even jam these Indian Police veh