Twitter reportedly cuts off intel agencies from surveillance tool

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Twitter has reportedly cut off access to a service that allowed U.S intelligence agencies to analyze the contents of hundreds of millions of daily user posts on the site.

The social networking giant reportedly asked Dataminr, a private company that mines public Twitter feeds, to stop providing the data to government agencies. The move was described on Sunday by an unnamed senior intelligence official who spoke with the Wall Street Journal.

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