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The AI that reads your tweets for the police || Transcript:

Everything you post online, the police might see it first, and here's how. Meet DataMiner. It's like Palantir, but slightly different. Let me show you what I mean. DataMiner uses natural language processing, NLP, and AI classifiers to scan billions of public posts across platforms like Twitter, Telegram, even live video feeds. It filters for keywords, geolocation tags, and anomaly patterns, then sends instant alerts to police departments, corporations, and even U.S. federal agencies.

Data Miner's AI uses natural language processing to detect threats, riots, accidents, and even trending incidents. When it flags something, subscribers get a real-time alert, sometimes before the general public even knows it's happening. It can even monitor for subtle clues such as words, hashtags, photos, or geotagged locations. Now, these departments that use DataMiner can usually pair this with something called AcuRent.

It's a data fusion system that aggregates 92 plus billion records including everything from DMV data, utility bills, property ownership, court filings, and even possible relatives or associates.

Police can run a single query and pull up your address history, phone records, known associates, and risk scores all without a warrant since it's technically public data. In the beginning, I mentioned how DataMiner is similar to Palantir, but here's how they're different. So Palantir aggregates private and public data from police, government, and corporate databases to analyze networks, risks, and predict future activity.

DataMiner only uses publicly visible data, social media, and news, and blogs, but delivers alerts in real time. Think of Palantir as a deep investigator and Dataminr as a live sensor. Now, these technologies aren't necessarily all bad. It can be used for good.

Again, it comes down to who is using these systems and the fact that you never consented to any of this data collection.

These systems run quietly in the background every day collecting all of this data. Want to know what else is watching you? [Follow at the CyberForge] for more inside the hidden world of surveillance and privacy and cybersecurity tips for everyday people.