The U.S. Marshals office, which is responsible for protecting the federal court system, is facing scrutiny for receiving alerts about pro-abortion social media chatter from the monitoring service Dataminr.
Federal and local law enforcement agencies have long collected information from social media for a variety of purposes, but those practices have intensified in recent years, legal experts say. With the pro bono help of attorneys, public interest groups are now bringing some of those practices into the public view.
Internal documents show a Polish firm with no law enforcement experience helped LAPD collect tens of thousands of tweets related to Black Lives Matter and racial justice protests