I’m not sure how this can be abused but I expect clever minds will be exploiting it very soon.
How about a smartphone app that allows cops to zero in on a specific area and see what everyone’s up to? It’s called Geofeedia.
By tuning in to social media, police can see what’s happening in their community in real time with live surveillance of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr, Picasa and Viddy and with location-based monitoring platforms like Geofeedia, a subscription-based service now used by Chicago police and 200 other departments as well as corporations and the news media, according (Read more…)