Twitter is making it crystal clear that they don’t want law enforcement to spy on you and your activities on its platform. The social network issued a warning that developers who use its public programming kits or Gnip data for surveillance will get limited access or will be suspended from the service entirely.
Twitter reasons that just because tweets are public, it doesn’t mean these should be harvested. They say their company is devoted to “social justice” and have law enforcement track protesters using public data curbs freedom of expression. Of course, that still won’t stop authorities from using other means to get data but at least this time they can’t gather so much information with just one program.