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Twitter Says Its Partner Dataminr Wasn’t Surveilling Protests for Local Cops, Just ‘News Alerting’

AI intelligence analysis startup Dataminr monitored nationwide protests against the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd using rarely granted, privileged access to Twitters firehose, the Intercept reported on Thursday. While this seems like a clear violation of Twitter policies against using its tools for surveillance purposes, Twitter says Dataminr was…

UPDATE 1-Closing schools ‘greater public health risk’ than reopening, says top U.S. health official – Reuters

(Adds commentary on school reopening from Redfield) By Carl O’Donnell July 9 (Reuters) – Keeping schools closed in the coming academic year is a greater risk to children’s health than reopening them, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said…

Closing schools ‘greater public health risk’ than reopening, says top U.S. health official – Reuters

July 9 (Reuters) – Keeping schools closed in the coming academic year is a greater risk to children’s health than reopening them, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. “I cannot overstate how important I think it…