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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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Nick Beim
Board member (Venrock partner)
Partner at venture firm Venrock who led its early investment in Dataminr and sits on the board; a national-security-focused investor and member of the Council on Foreign Relations who previously worked at Matrix Partners, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey.
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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.