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Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is urg­ing cit­i­zens to ex­er­cise cau­tion when us­ing so­cial me­dia apps, par­tic­u­lar­ly Face­book and Grindr.

Gue­var­ro made the re­marks at the con­clu­sion of a pan­el dis­cus­sion at the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce’s Health, Safe­ty, Se­cu­ri­ty and En­vi­rons con­fer­ence held yes­ter­day at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel. Speak­ing on cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty, he not­ed a par­tic­u­lar affin­i­ty among cit­i­zens for the two apps, which he said he could not ex­plain.

“I have no idea why Trinidad loves Grindr and Face­book so much. They can’t re­sist them­selves. And they’re be­com­ing vic­tims of their own de­vices. That’s a prob­lem. It’s a sit­u­a­tion of ei­ther we’re get­ting too brave or we’re get­ting too stu­pid,” he said.