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In reply to the discussion: Karen Beck of MoveOn says she will call the police on #Occupy if their actions upset her [View all]starroute
(12,977 posts)90. And there's this...
http://www.fastcompany.com/1835202/occupy-wall-streets-web-surveillance-problem
Occupy Sites Help Cops, Corps Track Occupiers
BY Neal Ungerleider | 04-25-2012
Big Data is everywhere. Occupy Wall Street protesters, however, are dealing with a special challenge: Online marketers and analytics firms tracing the minutiae of their lives--including their email contacts and physical location--and possibly passing the information on to law enforcement.
According to technology researcher Tim Libert, protesters affiliated with the Occupy movement have unintentionally aided and abetted corporations in tracking them through social media and analytics plug-ins. Popular web analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Sitemeter, it also turns out, repackage website information for corporate clients. These corporate clients can then pass on information to law enforcement agencies willing to purchase the data.
Mobile users of several popular services, whose GPS locations are much more likely to be tracked by overzealous local law enforcement, are especially vulnerable, Libert said in an email to Fast Company.I'm quite certain with the right set of database queries, Google engineers could identify specific account holders (through Google Maps) who were present at Zuccotti Park, for example. Likewise, it would be fairly trivial to compile a list of people who spent more than six hours at a time at any given Occupy encampment by looking at mobile phone records. That would give you a fairly good list of all Occupiers worldwide, who you could then place on any manner of watch lists.
Libert found that sites affiliated with the Occupy movement often included Facebook Like buttons or analytics services, which lead to user information being repackaged for marketers and corporations. Using the browser plug-in Ghostery, which reveals tracker bugs, Libert discovered that 99 out of 100 Occupy sites he visited employed some sort of cookie or third-party embedded content. Facebook and Twitter buttons showed up on 47% of the Occupy sites--but these buttons are also used by those social media giants to gather detailed information on user likes and habits. Every time an Occupier clicks a Like button for their local Occupy movement or information clearinghouse, they also potentially add information to a marketing dossier which could be acquired by probing law enforcement.
Occupy Sites Help Cops, Corps Track Occupiers
BY Neal Ungerleider | 04-25-2012
Big Data is everywhere. Occupy Wall Street protesters, however, are dealing with a special challenge: Online marketers and analytics firms tracing the minutiae of their lives--including their email contacts and physical location--and possibly passing the information on to law enforcement.
According to technology researcher Tim Libert, protesters affiliated with the Occupy movement have unintentionally aided and abetted corporations in tracking them through social media and analytics plug-ins. Popular web analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Sitemeter, it also turns out, repackage website information for corporate clients. These corporate clients can then pass on information to law enforcement agencies willing to purchase the data.
Mobile users of several popular services, whose GPS locations are much more likely to be tracked by overzealous local law enforcement, are especially vulnerable, Libert said in an email to Fast Company.I'm quite certain with the right set of database queries, Google engineers could identify specific account holders (through Google Maps) who were present at Zuccotti Park, for example. Likewise, it would be fairly trivial to compile a list of people who spent more than six hours at a time at any given Occupy encampment by looking at mobile phone records. That would give you a fairly good list of all Occupiers worldwide, who you could then place on any manner of watch lists.
Libert found that sites affiliated with the Occupy movement often included Facebook Like buttons or analytics services, which lead to user information being repackaged for marketers and corporations. Using the browser plug-in Ghostery, which reveals tracker bugs, Libert discovered that 99 out of 100 Occupy sites he visited employed some sort of cookie or third-party embedded content. Facebook and Twitter buttons showed up on 47% of the Occupy sites--but these buttons are also used by those social media giants to gather detailed information on user likes and habits. Every time an Occupier clicks a Like button for their local Occupy movement or information clearinghouse, they also potentially add information to a marketing dossier which could be acquired by probing law enforcement.
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Karen Beck of MoveOn says she will call the police on #Occupy if their actions upset her [View all]
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
OP
Banksters stole $15 trillion and we're arguing about undercover cops causing damage.
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
#36
And the press and MoveOn would like to keep that 1% "violent" protesters (inflitrated and instigated
Luminous Animal
Apr 2012
#48
they always want to associate protest & violence, so that the population will. be too afraid
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#140
It is the old "good protester, bad protester" lie that is being repeated here.
U4ikLefty
Apr 2012
#127
No, the Occupy Movement is against violence, and all she has done is confirm the suspicions
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#28
They saw it as a threat to their financial situation. They were right. People had left Move-on
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#45
Hey, your avatar, interesting, black bloc perhaps? Your comments sound a wee bit fishy. Hmmm..
crunch60
Apr 2012
#135
Who says they weren't police? Look at the number of lies coming out of Oakland
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
#7
Exactly, it doesn't matter if they're police or not, Karen Beck's statement still stands
arcane1
Apr 2012
#10
The cops will stand right there while "black bloc" commit vandalism and do nothing...
Luminous Animal
Apr 2012
#57
No, her statement is a lie. But not surprising considering it's Move-on. It's just that they
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#29
Yes, that's true. People have been concerned about Move-on for quite a while, even before
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#58
Yeah, YOU go down to your local precinct and ask to file a police report:
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
#15
Why are you asking that question? Do you know ANYTHING about OWS or are you just
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#30
The SF Chronicle in January reported that police were attacked with rocks and bricks
Luminous Animal
Apr 2012
#56
Yo dude, you need the updated anti-OWS script. The one you are working off of is sooo last November.
Luminous Animal
Apr 2012
#67
you are exactly right, divide and conquer. That is their goal. Joseph Goebells, Reich Minister of
crunch60
Apr 2012
#134
THIS is what police do to peaceful, unarmed protesters. Warning, graphic!
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
#20
I support and appreciate Occupy, but notice that his fear is "shaping policy"
rhett o rick
Apr 2012
#47
Occupy is a movement that is part of a larger movement that started before Occupy.
rhett o rick
Apr 2012
#106
I honestly dont know. I hope you are not basing that on the article ref in the OP.
rhett o rick
Apr 2012
#115
Even if you disapprove of the black bloc, calling the cops on them is not the answer
starroute
Apr 2012
#122
I dont doubt you one minute, but we all cannot be Occupy. Please respect us that are fighting
rhett o rick
Apr 2012
#138
In the article referenced she doesnt claim to be an Occurier. The authors of the article
rhett o rick
Apr 2012
#116
Ha! :) Anyone with a brain, living in Oakland and watching what has happened
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
#52
And all of this distracts from the main truth: Banksters stole over $15 trillion
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
#32
Did she have anything to say about the brutal violence of the Police? Move-on is so Mainstream
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#37
Yep! "OWS protesting = violence! moveon protesting = flowers and rainbows!"
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
#39
And this: "where tear-gas-filled clashes between police and protesters"
Luminous Animal
Apr 2012
#43
It's in solidarity with the 19 unions who work the bridge, ferry and buses and with those who have
Luminous Animal
Apr 2012
#74
MoveOn -or rather the reporters who wrote this story- don't need to split Occupy.
randome
Apr 2012
#111
Anyone who wants to support Occupy and help them achieve their goals is welcomed..
girl gone mad
Apr 2012
#114
You would be right if Beck came out of the Occupy movement -- but she doesn't
starroute
Apr 2012
#124
This article is horribly written...or really well written and deliberately misleading.
limpyhobbler
Apr 2012
#133
I totally agree. What a great story to say Occupy has split into clashing factions.
rhett o rick
Apr 2012
#137
Yes. That is why there is activity every day (organizational meetings, teach-ins)
Luminous Animal
Apr 2012
#80
I'm sure the right has agents provocateur in the Occupy movement. The faster the violent ones can be
applegrove
Apr 2012
#83