Colin Daileda says, “”We are committed to building a community where people can feel safe making their voices heard.” That’s how Facebook’s deputy chief privacy officer opened his public policy announcement on Monday, in a declaration aimed at users who fear that Facebook and others are mining their social data to track their behavior.

“Today we are adding language to our Facebook and Instagram platform policies to more clearly explain that developers cannot ‘use data obtained from us to provide tools that are used for surveillance,'” wrote Rob Sherman, the company’s privacy officer.

Sherman acknowledged that the policy shift came after some public prodding by California’s ACLU branch, the Center for Media Justice, and Color of Change. In October, the ACLU of California exposed how social media surveillance companies such as Geofeedia used data provided by Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to track activists. The company then sold their services to police departments”.

Facebook just took a surprising stand on an important digital rights issue

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