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Facebook Bans Surveillance Tools
Facebook relents under pressure from civil liberties groups and bans developers from using social networks to create surveillance tools.
Facebook announced that it has stopped software developers from being able to access the social network’s data to create surveillance tools, finally closing off a dubious situation that has seen third party vendors exploiting that information and selling it to law enforcement agencies to track protesters.
Facebook and Twitter first came under fire from privacy advocates late last year
