"West Sacramento is the first city to launch a controversial new program that watches what people post about it online.
The pilot project gives city leaders a look at what’s trending in the city, whether it’s good or bad. It’s also creating privacy concerns around how the data is being used."
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"The city is using Zencity, a system that crawls through publicly available social media posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It taks all of that data and sorts through to find what people are talking about and whether it’s positive or negative.
“The purpose of Zencity is to see the big picture,” he said."
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"But in the wake of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal and concerns over data collection in general, some are worried about where that data goes and who sees it."
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/05/10/west-sacramento-tracking-social-media/
The pilot project gives city leaders a look at what’s trending in the city, whether it’s good or bad. It’s also creating privacy concerns around how the data is being used."
...
"The city is using Zencity, a system that crawls through publicly available social media posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It taks all of that data and sorts through to find what people are talking about and whether it’s positive or negative.
“The purpose of Zencity is to see the big picture,” he said."
...
"But in the wake of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal and concerns over data collection in general, some are worried about where that data goes and who sees it."
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/05/10/west-sacramento-tracking-social-media/