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🚨 NEW: An @allthecitizens investigation has found £5m worth of UK govt contracts with a company used by US police to disperse #BLM protests.

This is #protest recognition tech: the scariest #AI you've never heard of. Dr Eleanor Drage @TheGoodRobot1 @CambridgeGender explains all.
Social media monitoring companies, like Geofeedia and Dataminr, have been known to partner with police in the US, using their tech to surveil protestors and feed real-time information based on social media activity back to law enforcement.
theguardian.com/technology/201…
Dataminr, a company which received early investment from the CIA, is an AI company that is granted full access to Twitter's content stream, known as the 'fire-hose', allowing it to scan every single public tweet.
privacyinternational.org/examples/4546/…
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