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the company’s executive vice pres- ident of human resources, also gave $1050. The mobile-phone- chip giant is registered to lobby at city hall, backing the mayor’s so-called recycled-water plan and pushing for a new “Qualcomm campus,” among other causes. Last November 17, Christine Trimble, the firm’s vice president for gov- ernment affairs, threw a Faulconer fundraiser that netted $9275.
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bases of any and all public posts within that boundary — and then to expand its collection of specific tar- gets’ information beyond the geo-tagged posts,” noted the website Inverse. com last November. A similar data-gathering
system called SnapTrends being used by police in Racine, Wisconsin, caught the attention of editorialists at that city’s Journal Times. “Police officials have
declined to provide specif- ics on how the department might use the SnapTrends software program, saying, ‘the publication of inves- tigative strategies and tactics could compromise future investigations.’” Notes the paper, “That
is a little worrisome. The question then becomes who polices the police? It’s one thing to use software to scan local social media for publicly posted information. It’s another to use enhanced electronic techniques to geo- locate the source of posts or tweets — then constitutional issues may come into play.” According to the sales
pitch on Geofeedia’s web- site, “Only relying on key- word and hashtag listening
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means you are missing two thirds of social media activity. Add location- based intelligence to your social media data set to increase your community engagement.” Advises Geofeedia, “Raw intel-
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ligence data points captured from social media allow you to weave a story together, based on many data points, to make informed recommen- dations and decisions.” An August 2015 “business case
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concept” justification for Geofeedia’s use by San Diego police says “the Department seeks an automated tool to collect, aggregate and analyze location-based, open and multiple- source social media activities.”
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