Facebook and Instagram ban developers from using data for surveillance
by Sam Levin in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#2FRCQ)
Company announces new privacy policy following revelations that police gained special access to the social networks to track protesters
Facebook and Instagram have banned developers from using their data for surveillance with a new privacy policy that civil rights activists have long sought to curb spying by law enforcement.
Following revelations last year that police departments had gained special access to the social networks to track protesters, Facebook, which owns Instagram, announced on Monday that it had updated its rules to state that developers could not "use data obtained from us to provide tools that are used for surveillance".
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