Abuse
Surveilling the George Floyd protests
2020Dataminr relayed information about 2020 racial-justice protests to police, despite policies meant to prohibit surveillance of lawful demonstrations.
Social Media Monitoring
Dataminr
Dataminr turns firehoses of public social-media and web data into real-time alerts sold to corporations and government. Reporting revealed it relayed alerts on Black Lives Matter and abortion-rights protests to police, raising First Amendment concerns about monitoring lawful dissent. It has since leaned hard into generative AI — 'ReGenAI,' autonomous 'Intel Agents,' and a 2026 First Alert Advanced platform — acquired cyber-intelligence firm ThreatConnect for $290 million in 2025, and won a five-year Pentagon alerting contract worth about $318 million.
◍ New York, New YorkEst. 2009
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Monitoring abortion-rights protests
2022After Roe's reversal, reporting found the U.S. Marshals using Dataminr to monitor abortion-rights demonstrations, with alerts fed to law enforcement.