Work with DATAMINR

The request was refused by Lincolnshire Police.

Dear Lincolnshire Police,

I'm writing to you under the Freedeom of Information Act (2000) to ask that you please disclose to me whether your force uses the company DATAMINR.

I'd like to know of any contract that you hold with this company, from 2019 to present, or, if not direct contracts, whether or not you use this company / have bought it through a third party software broker.

I'd like to know, if the previous answer is yes, what events it has tracked for you, including any and all protest events, and who's tweets / which news events were targeted by it, including BLM, XR, Insulate Britain, Women's Marches, "antifa", anti-arms trade groups, trade unions, environmentalist groups, or LGBTQ+ rights campaigners.

I'd also like a copy of the contract, if relevent, and user service agreement for this work.

Yours faithfully,

Max Colbert
The Citizens

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Good afternoon,

Please see attached the final response to your FOI request.

FOI Team
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Department
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Dear Lincolnshire Police,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Lincolnshire Police's handling of my FOI request 'Work with DATAMINR'.

Dataminr have been found in the past to facilitate domestic surveillance of peaceful protests, not only of activists but of bystanders, both at the behest of law enforcement officials and intelligence services, by accessing the twitter firehose service and feeding information directly back to these bodies. This violated twitter policy, and resulted in twitter kicking the CIA off of the service as far back as 2016, after which point dataminr were found to be engaging in the same activity again in 2020, after having lied about doing so, by monitoring BLM protestors in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

The public have a right to know when domestic surveillance is being carried out, both by a public body but specifically a third party with a questionable track record operating on behalf of said public body, and there deserves to be a free and focused discourse as to the methods law enforcement use in order to enact public safety. It is for this reason that I have to request that you re-examine the response given to me here, and provide me with the information I'm requesting.

Yours faithfully,

Max Colbert
The Citizens

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Randle, Jana,

Good morning

Thank you for your below email.

Your request for an internal review has been logged and assigned for processing under our reference 002403/22.

Kind regards

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Dear Mr Colbert

Please find enclosed our response to your internal review request linked to FOI reference 001454/22.

Kind regards

FOI team
Information Management Unit (IMU)
01522 947125
[email address]
Lincolnshire Police Headquarters, Deepdale Lane, Nettleham LN2 2LT
www.lincs.police.uk

@LincsPolice
Lincolnshire Police
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nextdoor.co.uk
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PLEASE NOTE: We are a Microsoft Office Site. Please make sure that files you send can be read in this format. The information contained in this email is confidential and is intended for the addressee(s) only. Any attachments to this message contain information from Lincolnshire Police, which is confidential or privileged. The copyright in the contents of this message and any attachments is the property of Lincolnshire Police, and any unauthorised reproduction or disclosure is contrary to the provisions of the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Lincolnshire Police is not responsible for the content of this message. Individuals are responsible for messages transmitted under their user ID and their compliance with the law. This message and any attachments have been scanned for viruses. Lincolnshire Police will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message or as a result of any virus being passed on.