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.

◍ New York, New YorkEst. 2009

People & money behind it

Ted Bailey→Fidelity→Valor Equity Partners→MSD Capital→

Agencies & customers

FBIDHSLocal LEFusion

Products (2)

Dataminr First Alert→Dataminr Pulse→

Abuses & incidents

Abuse

Surveilling the George Floyd protests

2020

Dataminr relayed information about 2020 racial-justice protests to police, despite policies meant to prohibit surveillance of lawful demonstrations.

↳Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr — The Intercept, 2020 ↗

Abuse

Monitoring abortion-rights protests

2022

After Roe's reversal, reporting found the U.S. Marshals using Dataminr to monitor abortion-rights demonstrations, with alerts fed to law enforcement.

↳U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr — The Intercept, 2023 ↗