Dataminr is used by the Central Intelligence Agency, United States police departments, news agencies, private companies and government institutions. The tech company is a partner of Twitter, which provides it with unlimited access to the “firehose” a constant stream of all available data from a source in real time. This allowed Dataminr to scan every tweet.
Dataminr uses its platform to surveil Twitter for keywords and other indicators of supposedly high risk activities. It was used to try and disrupt last year’s Black Lives Matter in the US, by providing authorities with information from protesters’ social media.
The GIPA documents show that the university used Dataminr to monitor student and staff on Twitter and Facebook and create lists of those attending protests which were automatically sent as email alerts to the university’s administration officers.
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