‘ FBI , the CIA ‘ s NSA will simply scroll through their Twitter feed as anyone else by now. The US intelligence agency was in fact denied the use of Dataminr , a service that uses an algorithm that can perform analysis on everything that is posted on the social network of the bird.
according to a Wall Street Journal report, Twitter has in program cutting off access to Dataminr to US intelligence agencies, even if the move is not yet made public.
In the past, agencies like the CIA, NSA and FBI have used the service, partially owned by Twitter , to control social media posts for possible terrorist plots. However, Twitter is afraid to look too closely connected with the intelligence at a time when the relationship between the government and Silicon Valley is becoming more complicated.
The WSJ reports the words of a senior intelligence official, who said that in his view Twitter was too concerned about all ‘ “appearance” of his report too intimate with the government. In a statement, Twitter explained that “ data are largely public ” and that “the US government may examine public accounts on their own, like any other user.” However, Dataminr is currently the only company with which Twitter allows you to access a real-time feed of each tweet, a huge and valuable amounts of data which are then packaged and sold.
Twitter has a 5% share in Dataminr (which was recently valued at more than $ 700 million) but the social media giant is exerting a significant influence in this situation. Dataminr not want to bite the hand that feeds her, saw that her entire business is based on a solid relationship with Twitter, but losing the substantial government contracts would be a blow for the company.
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Ted Bailey, CEO of Dataminr, has recently met with the Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, to discuss the ability of its companies to provide valuable information to government and in real time. Dataminr maintain a $ 255,000 contract with the Department of Homeland Security. Also many other media companies, including International Business Times, have contracts with the company in New York .
The Twitter requests come at a time when the debate on obligations of tech companies to assist government, especially with regard to intelligence work, is very intense, in the wake of the Apple-FBI dispute.
After the giant California has refused to help the agency to unlock an iPhone used by one of the suspects of the terrorist attacks of San Bernardino last December, the FBI initially filed a lawsuit against Apple, only to drop the suit after receiving technical assistance from a third party.
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