By John Glenday

Twitter has allegedly moved to distance itself from US intelligence gathering by instructing an analytics company with which it shares data to cease collaboration with the CIA and others – although it will maintain a $255k breaking news contract with the Department of Homeland Security.

Reports in the Wall Street Journal suggest that Dataminr, which trawls through millions of daily tweets to form news alerts for subscribers, has been instructed to cut off the government bodies from its services – ending two years of collaboration.

Twitter hasn’t commented directly on the matter but a senior US intelligence official told the WSJ said Read full story ›

Source: The Drum