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
Michael Dell
Founder, Dell · Principal, MSD Capital
Est. net worth: ~$100B+ (public estimate)
Founder of Dell Technologies whose family office, MSD Capital, has backed Dataminr — the firm that mined social media to alert police to protests.
On the record
- ▸One of the wealthiest people in tech.
- ▸MSD Capital was an investor in Dataminr.
Funds
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.
Sources
- ↳Michael Dell's investment vehicles — Bloomberg, 2021