Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by squeaky-clean on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:14AM (#23788082)

I see you post on forums involving hackers and encryption. We're just going to keep tabs on you and other potential members of your militia, ok?

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by pnako on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:52AM (#23789488)

I suspect you're just disagreeing on what "keeping tabs" actually means.

The government shouldn't put someone under (specific|personal) surveillance without strong evidence of course. But I don't see what prevents them from reading twitter, going into public chat rooms, etc.

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