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
Ted Bailey
Founder & CEO, Dataminr
Founder of Dataminr, which turned social-media firehoses into real-time alerts sold to government — including, reporting found, alerts on protesters.
On the record
- ▸Built Dataminr on privileged access to Twitter's data firehose.
- ▸Grew the company to a multibillion-dollar valuation with government clients.
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.
Sources
- ↳Dataminr's founder and its government business — The Intercept, 2020