Twitter Says Its Partner Dataminr Wasn't Surveilling Protests for Local Police, Just 'News Alerting'

AI intelligence analysis startup Dataminr reportedly monitored US protests against the death of George Floyd using rarely granted, privileged access to Twitter’s "firehose" data feed.

from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/07/twitter-says-its-partner-dataminr-wasnt-surveilling-protests-for-local-police-just-news-alerting/