Twitter is supercharging racial profiling.
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Protect our protestors from police violence.
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Dear John,
Twitter must act immediately to stop its developers from facilitating
police surveillance of Black protestors and communities. Dataminr, a
“Twitter Partner” is helping police track protestors' whereabouts and
actions using human analysts to racially profile Black Twitter users based
on hunches and racist tropes; these keyword searches are then funneled to
the police and used to perpetuate targeted violence against protestors.
Dataminr’s actions specifically profile our movements and Black and
low-income neighborhoods, violating surveillance policy prohibiting the
use of tweets to gather intelligence.^1
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Dataminr from supercharging police surveillance and profiling of Black
activists and organizers.
John, Twitter has vocally supported the movement for Black
lives and previously spoken out against law enforcement using Twitter to
surveil us. It is time for Twitter to live up to the promise they made to
us in 2016 to never allow developers to assist law enforcement to surveil
our movements or communities. Black protestors and our communities have a
right to protest murders at the hands of police and a justice system that
continues to fail us without police tracking our every movement.
[ [link removed] ]SIGN THE PETITION: Demand that Twitter immediately stop its partner
Dataminr from supercharging police surveillance and profiling of Black
activists and organizers.
Until justice is real,
—Jade, Rashad, Arisha, Johnny, Amanda, Evan, Imani, Marie, Samantha,
Eesha, Marcus, FolaSade, Eesha, Jennette, Ciera, Gabrielle, Taurjhai,
Stasia, and the rest of the Color Of Change team
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References:
1. Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities Of Color For Police,”
The Intercept, October 21, 2020,
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