Twitter Subsidiary Caught Giving Surveillance Feeds To Govts, Twitter Backpedals

[Razer]

This story is actually weeks old now albeit it wasn't noted at the time
Dataminr was a subsidiary. They were referred to as an 'associate', like
an advertising partner might be referred to.

Rr


On 12/16/2016 10:10 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/15/twitter-dataminr-user-data-aclu
> http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160315_dataminr_email_to_jric.pdf
> http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20161212_twitter_letter_to_aclu.pdf
> https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/legal-docket/gill-v-doj-challenge-federal-suspicious-activity-reporting
> https://www.jric.org/
>
> Twitter has blocked federally funded "domestic spy centers" from using
> a powerful social media monitoring tool after public records revealed
> that the government had special access to users' information for
> controversial surveillance efforts. The American Civil Liberties Union
> of California discovered that so-called fusion centers, which collect
> intelligence, had access to monitoring technology from Dataminr, an
> analytics company partially owned by Twitter. The ACLU's records
> prompted the companies to announce that Dataminr had terminated access
> for all fusion centers and would no longer provide social media
> surveillance tools to any local, state or federal government entities.
> The government centers are partnerships between agencies that work to
> collect vast amounts of information purportedly to analyze "threats".
> The spy centers, according to the ACLU, target protesters, journalists
> and others protected by free speech rights while also racially
> profiling people deemed "suspicious" by law enforcement. Records that
> the ACLU obtained uncovered that a fusion center in southern
> California had access to Dataminr's "geospatial analysis application",
> which allowed the government to do location-based tracking as well as
> searches tied to keywords. That means the center could use Dataminr to
> search billions of tweets and monitor specific demographics or
> organizations.
>
> Shell companies to be given same access in the future.

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