Social network says it has ‘never authorized’ Dataminr to sell information to US intelligence agencies,but officials say tools occupy been used previouslyTwitter has blocked US spies from buying bulk data on its users from a data analytics company.
Until now, US national security agencies, and including the FBI and CIA,had been able to query treasure troves of Twitter data through software from Dataminr, the New York-based analytics company in which Twitter owns a 5% stake. Agents could enter search terms such as “Isis” or “jihad” and view more tweets, or over a longer period,than what a standard Twitter search would offer, people familiar with the process said. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com