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.
Individual
Jeremy Bash
Board member / advisor
Founder and Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies and former Chief of Staff to the CIA Director (2009-2011) and to the Secretary of Defense (2011-2013); Dataminr is the company most publicly associated with his firm.
On the record
Companies
Incidents in their orbit
Abuse
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.