Facebook, Instagram prohibit developers from using user data for surveillance

By Ese Olumhense ‘Our goal is to make our policy explicit’ Facebook and Instagram announced Monday that they will prohibit the use of their company data for warrantless surveillance, in response to a months-long effort from civil liberties and civil rights groups to protect users of those platforms. “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 a