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When you drop a vowel and spell it “@Dataminr” it somehow manages to sound sketchier and even worse than “Dataminer” does. https://t.co/chktIOTPYN
— HydroxyCoreyQuinn (@QuinnyPig) July 9, 2020
"Twitter, up until recently a longtime investor in Dataminr alongside the CIA"
— Klaudia Amenábar (@kaludiasays) July 9, 2020
UHHHHHHHHHHHH https://t.co/BW7LeWFada
A lot of surveillance firms survived the short burst of bans by Facebook and Twitter in late 2015 by simply not calling what they were doing “surveillance” anymore. Facebook/Twitter both required journalists to provide evidence of surveillance before they’d take any action. https://t.co/jyAuC7OMj5
— Dell Cameron (@dellcam) July 9, 2020
Twitter has an official policy prohibiting tweet-based surveillance, "period." The company told me Dataminr “is in compliance with our developer policy."
— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) July 9, 2020
NEW: Dataminr, an official Twitter partner, helped police surveil Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder. Both companies deny that relaying tweets about the locations of peaceful protesters is "surveillance" https://t.co/ezsNgy69T8
— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) July 9, 2020
a version of this happened in 2016 with geofeedia providing blm protestor surveillance in baltimore to police, which was similar to dataminr. twitter cut off its special api access, kneecaping the company. curious to see if it does the same here https://t.co/VMYBzrmFNa
— Ali Breland (@alibreland) July 9, 2020
After I showed Dataminr an alert the company provided to Minneapolis PD including the exact location of protesters as an example, a company spokesperson told me that the police needed this information because it was about a "blocked intersection," not a protest
— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) July 9, 2020
Twitter gives Dataminr access to its "firehouse," a non-public stream that allows it to monitor activities across Twitter.
— Avi Asher-Schapiro (@AASchapiro) July 9, 2020
Dataminr then sends police what its gleaned about BLM protests.
Both firms claim they don't help with police "surveilence."https://t.co/gghfY1KUaX
“Dataminr alert emails sent to the Minneapolis Police Department...show the company collected, bundled, and captioned Twitter content relevant to the anti-police brutality protests and forwarded it directly to police...” https://t.co/Q2a6efNvjf
— vanessa taylor (@BaconTribe) July 9, 2020
both companies defend their actions by basically saying over and over again that this is not surveillance, it's "news gathering"https://t.co/ezsNgy69T8 pic.twitter.com/ahzJ2NWESy
— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) July 9, 2020
During a company meeting about their work with police in the midst of nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, a Dataminr executive told employees that social media surveillance of protesters actually "helps magnify their voice"
— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) July 9, 2020
Excellent - it’s past time for Twitter to come clean about its relationship with Dataminr and put its money where its mouth is when it comes to use of customer data for surveillance. https://t.co/8m5PJNWQar
— Rachel Levinson-Waldman (@RachelBLevinson) July 9, 2020
I’m this is particularly alarming because Dataminr is often spookily good at what it does. https://t.co/2GNkmFMVrP
— Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP) July 9, 2020
Dataminr “collected, bundled, and captioned Twitter content relevant to the anti-police brutality protests and forwarded it directly to police” https://t.co/JhbICX9j9c
— Emma Roller (@emmaroller) July 9, 2020
FWIW, I use Dataminr.
— Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar) July 9, 2020
Here’s what it looks like in my TweetDeck.
Many here at NBC also use it, daily, constantly.https://t.co/x4Ekvz737l pic.twitter.com/JA8H6YKm6R
This practice fuels surveillance and exposes people — particularly Black, Indigenous, and people of color — to further surveillance and state violence. https://t.co/bSa0CpjINe
— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) July 9, 2020
Surveillance? Hardly. We're just recording your every movement and reporting it to law enforcement.
— Ralph Pullins (@RDPullins) July 9, 2020
Cc: @doctorow https://t.co/qtGuQbjSMI
This is the tech used to spy on protests to #DefendBlackLives and #DefundPolice.
— malkia devich-cyril (@culturejedi) July 9, 2020
“Dataminr relayed tweets and other social media content about the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests directly to police, apparently across the country.” https://t.co/ccuKHbkz5W
a twitter-affiliated company is literally giving our data to the police and they used it to monitor the protests https://t.co/bOh7cWUP7h
— 「desp」 (@bigracks) July 10, 2020
POLICE SURVEILLED GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS WITH HELP FROM TWITTER-AFFILIATED STARTUP DATAMINR.#BlueLeaks #Anonymous #GeorgeFloydhttps://t.co/hu2OCMHGaY
— Anonymous (@GroupAnon) July 9, 2020
Full article here by @samfbiddle https://t.co/TIoCPw4nzq
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) July 9, 2020
Icymi many fascinating things in this @theintercept story about Dataminr and police surveillance - not least its positioning itself as a ‘news’ organisation. For the many newsrooms that use the company this makes uncomfortable reading https://t.co/qYhieATuib
— emily bell (@emilybell) July 10, 2020
View our press release here: https://t.co/y2fHcPl18X
— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) July 9, 2020
Dataminr helped police surveil BLM protestors using their tweets (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/bRCutJceuV
— TNW (@thenextweb) July 10, 2020
Dataminr helped police surveil BLM protestors using their tweets (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/g6itG4LQly
— TNW (@thenextweb) July 10, 2020