Twitter service blocks access to intelligence agencies – Voice of America

Dataminr alerted US authorities terrorist attacks in Paris in November, shortly after they began.

service Dataminr discover patterns of information transmitted daily via Twitter.

Voice of America – Editorial

                     09/05/2016
                 

Twitter blocked the access of US intelligence agencies to a service which has been useful in the fight against terrorism.

daily the Wall Street Journal reported that an influential US intelligence official said access was blocked because Twitter seemed concerned about the appearance of being very friendly with intelligence agencies.

the report comes after company executives discovery of real-time information called Dataminr recently said agencies intelligence privately that Twitter wanted Dataminr stop providing services to agencies.

the service provided by Dataminr discover patterns in hundreds of millions of pieces of information transmitted daily via Twitter.

the website of the company says that Dataminr makes real-time data from Twitter and other public sources into signals capable of processing.

Dataminr, 5% of which is owned by Twitter, the US authorities alerted the terrorist attacks of November in Paris shortly after the attacks began. Dataminr also provided real-time information on attacks from the militant group Islamic State, the political crisis in Brazil and other events.

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