An AI company closely related to Twitter is reported to have 'monitored anti-racism protests and provided information to the police'
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Of black men George Floyd Mr. has been killed by police officers incident to the opportunity of, sue the elimination of black discrimination ' Black Lives Matter (BLM)' movement has spread rapidly. It was reported that Dataminr , an emerging AI company affiliated with Twitter, monitored the protest movement and provided information to the police.
Dataminr Helped Police Use Tweets To Surveil BLM Protests
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/
Dataminr is an American company that provides information collected and analyzed in real time using AI and machine learning. In addition to having hundreds of clients in 70 countries around the world, and particularly in close partnership with Twitter as an official partner , Twitter gives Dataminr exclusive access to user posts. It has been.
Internet media, The Intercept, said on July 10, 2020, 'We are helping Dataminr digitally monitor police protesters and provide them with the latest whereabouts and behavior. I got a document that says that.'
According to Dataminr's internal documentation, obtained by The Intercept, Dataminr told its staff that 'police force against protesters, or vice versa,' 'property damage,' 'arson on government agencies and commercial infrastructure. Information on looting, 'shooting or killing involving police officers, which could be interpreted as being based on racial prejudice,' and 'cases of violent protest spread to major American cities.' In addition to instructing them to collect them, the staff said they were monitoring the SNS for posts regarding 'Police officers involved in Mr. Floyd's death.'
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Dataminr provided information obtained from SNS monitoring etc. to government agencies through a service called 'First Alert'. In addition to gathering information on ongoing meetings in real time, it also gathered information on meetings scheduled to be held in the future, and made predictions about the place and date and time of the meetings.
Lindsay McCallum, a spokeswoman for Twitter, told The Intercept, ``The data released by Twitter include news alerts, support for first responders (emergency response personnel) rushing to the accident site, disaster rescue, etc. We believe it is used for socially useful purposes, and Dataminr's First Alert does not violate our policy of prohibiting monitoring.'
'We don't allow First Alert users to use it for any kind of monitoring,' said Dataminr spokeswoman Kerry McGee. The Intercept showed McGee a 'screenshot of a tweet that pinpointed the protest group's location,' provided by Dataminr to the Minneapolis Police Department: McGee said, 'This was not a protest, it was blocked. It was provided to the police as a traffic issue including intersections.'
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A source familiar with Dataminr's work told The Intercept, 'The Dataminr and Twitter claims in the past that 'we do not allow surveillance' are deliberately narrowing the definition of surveillance.' Dataminr protests. It's true that we aren't tracking individuals or activists individually, but because we're tracking protests at the request of the police, it's as good as tracking protesters.'
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