Twitter bans group that leaked trove of police data online

Twitter has banned a group that appeared to leak years of records from 200 police departments. The platform removed the account of Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a collective that recently published nearly 270 gigabytes of data under the title “BlueLeaks.” Twitter also added a warning page that appears if you click an existing link to the dataset, and it’s blocking new tweets that include the link, warning that it’s been identified as “potentially harmful.”

DDoSecrets member Emma Best tweeted the news from a separate account earlier today. Twitter confirmed it in a statement to The Verge, saying that DDoSecrets violated rules against posting hacked materials and was permanently suspended. As Ars Technica notes, this hasn’t...

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