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.
Dataminr First Alert
Real-time public-sector alerts mined from social media.
First Alert scans social platforms and public data to push real-time alerts to government and police — including, reporting found, alerts about protests and demonstrators.
What it does
- ▸Real-time social monitoring
- ▸Event & threat alerts
- ▸Geo & keyword filters
- ▸Firehose-scale ingest
Where it's deployed
- ◍Police & fusion centers
- ◍Monitored 2020 protests (reported)
Agencies using it
FBIDHSLocal LEFusion