[blind-democracy] FW: Dataminr Helped Police Use Tweets to Surveil BLM Protests
- From: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:22:21 -0400
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To: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Dataminr Helped Police Use Tweets to Surveil BLM Protests
The artificial intelligence firm is making questionable use of its Twitter
firehose privileges — and not for the first time.
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