May 9, 2016 – Kevin McCoy

Twitter has moved to block U.S. intelligence agencies from access to a widely used data-mining service it partly owns.
The social media company told Dataminr, the business partner that sifts through and provides access to the full output of Twitter’s social media postings known as tweets, that it didn’t want the service provided to government investigators, a person with direct knowledge of the issue said Monday. [READ MORE]