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Surveilling the George Floyd protests
2020Dataminr relayed information about 2020 racial-justice protests to police, despite policies meant to prohibit surveillance of lawful demonstrations.
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Individual
Jeff Kinsey
Co-founder & CTO
Yale graduate who co-founded Dataminr in 2009 and serves as Chief Technology Officer, having built the company's first engineering and AI team and core components of its real-time event-detection platform.
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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.