Twitter Takes Stand vs. Use of Dataminr for Surveillance Purposes

Twitter refused to authorize the Dataminr program to sell user data to government agencies, noting that the governments call always review public data on their own.

Dataminr, a company dedicated to identifying breaking news on Twitter, made headlines recently for shutting down a pilot program to share Twitter data with U.S. intelligence agencies. Officially, Twitter’s policy of not selling data to the government was the reason for not renewing the program, but could this be Twitter doubling down on resisting data sharing with governments?

Twitter has maintained a firm stance against government data collection for some time, even going as far as filing suit against the government to allow its transparency report to be more transparent.

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