Yes. It’s data collected from public sources of information but it is surveillance. It may be legal, it may be public information, but this is a government col

Yes. It’s data collected from public sources of information but it is surveillance. It may be legal, it may be public information, but this is a government collecting information on its citizens: government surveillance. Consider the effects: > Government monitoring of social media can work to people’s detriment in at least four ways: (1) wrongly implicating an individual or group in criminal behavior based on their activity on social media; (2) misinterpreting the meaning of social media activity, sometimes with severe consequences; (3) suppressing people’s willingness to talk or connect openly online; and (4) invading individuals’ privacy. Now if you’re cool with those effects, rock on. I’m not keen. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/social-media-surveillance-us-government https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/soci...