The #AI Tools #CBP Is Using to Scan #SocialMedia
Customs and Border Protection released more documents last week that show which AI-powered tools that agency has been using to identify people of interest, including #Fivecast ONYX and #Dataminr, another social media monitoring company.
The release of these documents happened the same week that #DHS announced it will “Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism.”
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-tools-cbp-is-using-to-scan-social-media/
https://archive.ph/QbpJD
#surveillance

If was still on TwiX I'd post this article to encourage folk to leave. Clearly terms of use mean nothing to this company.

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/17/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

#twitter #lapd #dataminr #x #palestine

"Based on the records obtained by The Intercept, which span October 2023 to April 2024, Dataminr alerted the LAPD of more than 50 different protests, including at least a dozen before they occurred...Privacy and civil liberties experts argue that police surveillance of First Amendment activity from afar has chilling effect on political association, discourse and dissent." #Dataminr #Musk #PoliceState #politics

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/17/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr/

LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/17/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr/

#HackerNews #LAPD #Surveillance #Gaza #Protests #SocialMedia #Tool #Dataminr

Violando i diritti costituzionali dei manifestanti, la polizia di #LosAngeles ha sorvegliato le proteste per #Gaza "grazie" a #Dataminr, una società di sorveglianza dei social media e "partner ufficiale" di #X.

#Usa #Trump #GazaGenocide‌ #17marzo

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/17/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr/

US Marshals received regular alerts from #Dataminr, who monitors social media for #corporate & #govt clients, about precise times, locations of ongoing & planned #abortion #rights demonstrations

They reported posts of protest organizers, participants, & bystanders, & leveraged Dataminr’s privileged unrestricted #Twitter access #monitor constitutionally protected speech

This is ripe for #abuse, but NOT subject to legislative#judicial oversight

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/

#FreeSpeech #PoliceState

Twitter Caught Selling Data to Government Spies While Complaining About Surveillance

despite railing against state spying, the social media company has been quietly profiting off it this entire time — selling a "firehose" of user data for the explicit purpose of being used by law enforcement

#twitter #x #socialmedia #Dataminr #freespeech #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-selling-data-government

Interesting read on the contradictions between #ElonMusk public stance about privacy and free speech and #twitter providing law enforcement with everything via #dataminr #TheIntercept
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/

"emails between the U.S. Secret Service and the #surveillance firm #Dataminr, obtained by The Intercept from a Freedom of Information Act request, show X/#Twitter is in an awkward position, profiting from the sale of user data for government surveillance purposes at the same time as it was fighting secrecy around another flavor of state surveillance in court."

To be fair, this predated #Musk, but he's since done nothing to halt it, making his own hypocrisy worse.

https://archive.is/YFVps

Double plus ungood!

Elon Musk Fought #GovernmentSurveillance — While Profiting Off Government Surveillance

Musk made hay of his legal battle against secret surveillance but continued selling X user data to a company that facilitates government monitoring.

by Sam Biddle
March 25 2024

"While national security letters allow the government to make targeted demands for non-public data on an individual basis, companies like #Dataminr continuously monitor public activity on social media and other internet platforms. Dataminr provides its customers with customized real-time 'alerts' on desired topics, giving clients like police departments a form of social media omniscience. The alerts allow police to, for instance, automatically track a #protest as it moves from its planning stages into the streets, without requiring police officials to do any time-intensive searches."

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/

#Privacy #Surveillance #Police #Orwellian #ElonMusk #Activists #ACAB #DirectAction #Activism #SurveillanceState #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #BigTechBros #BigTechBrosAreWatchingYou

#USA #SocialMedia #Twitter #Surveillance #PoliceState #Dataminr: "The court’s refusal to take the case on ended X’s legal bid, but the company and Musk had positioned themselves at the forefront of a battle on behalf of internet users for greater transparency about government surveillance.

However, emails between the U.S. Secret Service and the surveillance firm Dataminr, obtained by The Intercept from a Freedom of Information Act request, show X is in an awkward position, profiting from the sale of user data for government surveillance purposes at the same time as it was fighting secrecy around another flavor of state surveillance in court.

While national security letters allow the government to make targeted demands for non-public data on an individual basis, companies like Dataminr continuously monitor public activity on social media and other internet platforms. Dataminr provides its customers with customized real-time “alerts” on desired topics, giving clients like police departments a form of social media omniscience. The alerts allow police to, for instance, automatically track a protest as it moves from its planning stages into the streets, without requiring police officials to do any time-intensive searches.

Although Dataminr defends First Alert, its governmental surveillance platform, as a public safety tool that helps first responders react quickly to sudden crises, the tool has been repeatedly shown to be used by police to monitor First Amendment-protected online political speech and real-world protests." https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/

The strongest evidence that #Meta and #X aren’t following their own anti-surveillance policies comes from vendors themselves: #Dataminr (official “partner” of X), #BabelStreet, #Skopenow, #MediaSonar, and ShadowDragon publicly claim that they have access to data from Meta and/or X. Those companies sell their services, data, and products — which appear to operate at extraordinary scale — to police and other gov;t agencies through contracts that can be extremely lucrative.
https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/social-media-threat-monitoring-improves-national-security

The #FBI continues #RacialProfiling via subcontracts. "FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors”" https://theintercept.com/2023/07/06/fbi-social-media-surveillance-zerofox/ #ZeroFox #Dataminr #BlackLivesMatter #racism #SystemicRacism

Quand les activistes pro-choice sont surveillés sur les réseaux sociaux.

Twitter EST partenaire de Dataminr

#Dataminr #LawEnforcement #Surveillance #Abortion

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/

🧵Twitter is a massive threat to democracy whether Elon Musk is running it or not. 1/

U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using #Dataminr #DefundTwitter #Fascism #Twitter

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/

U.S. Marshals Spied on #Abortion #Protesters Using #Dataminr
#Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of #postRoe #demonstrations, internal emails show. Dataminr flagged the #socialmedia posts of #protest organizers, participants, and bystanders, and leveraged Dataminr’s privileged access to the so-called firehose of unrestricted Twitter data to monitor constitutionally protected #speech. https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/ #freespeach #surveillance #privacy

#US Marshals #Spied on #Abortion #Protesters Using #Dataminr

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/

The biopolitical surveillance regime - friendly sponsered by Twitter's official partners

U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
"Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of post-Roe demonstrations, internal emails show.
Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, alerted a federal law enforcement agency to pro-abortion protests and rallies in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request."

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/

#tracking #Profiling #surveillance #criminalisation #USA #antireport #abortion #Twitter #Dataminr

This is an infringement on their #HumanRights and #RightToPrivacy "U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr" https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/ #USMarshals #AbortionRights #RoeVsWade #WomensRights #CivilRights #twitter #ElonMusk #Dataminr #uspoli

#DATAMINR, AN “OFFICIAL PARTNER” of #Twitter, alerted a federal law enforcement agency to pro-abortion #protests and rallies in the wake of the reversal of #Roe v. #Wade, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request.

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/