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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by tptacek on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:32PM (#43391422)
It technically is! The ACLU has a model ordinance called CCOPS, which it encourages municipalities to pass (I got my own muni to pass a version of it last year), and it includes an expansive definition of "surveillance" that definitely includes tools that read public posts on social media.

Importantly, CCOPS doesn't forbid surveillance; it simply requires new instantiations of it to be approved at an open board meeting. Things like Dataminr would almost certainly pass.

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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by jeffbee on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:09PM (#43391779)
As you say, expansive. As in: it expands the definition of surveillance in a way that isn't widely accepted.
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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by sejje on Monday March 17, 2025 @07:07PM (#43393678)
Expansive means large, vast.

Not necessarily growing.

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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by jeffbee on Monday March 17, 2025 @07:12PM (#43393712)
Not necessarily. I agree with that. But in American English usage it is distinct from your meaning, which is more aligned with "extensive". The first entry for "expansive" in my usage dictionary is "tending to expand". The main reason to choose the word is to communicate growth.
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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by tptacek on Monday March 17, 2025 @09:04PM (#43394655)
Well, I wrote the word, and I didn't mean "growing".
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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by smcin on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:02AM (#43396463)
Better to say "ever-expanding" or "constantly-expanding" and be unambiguous.
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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by milesrout on Monday March 17, 2025 @07:40PM (#43393978)
It "technically is" if you redefine it to include it. In other words, it isn't.
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