The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an injunction blocking Perplexity's Comet browser agent from shopping on Amazon on behalf of users, ruling that the user — not the AI company — legally "acce…
Clearview AI has been quietly testing a prototype tool called InquiryIQ that uses xAI's Grok model to surface associates, social media accounts, and other personal details about people identified thro…
Bipartisan opposition to Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate readers is growing ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro calling for a statewide ban and …
Sonoma County supervisors approved a settlement paying $50,000 to each of three residents and enacting regulatory reforms to end the ACLU lawsuit over drone surveillance used for code enforcement. The…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday ordered the revocation of all permits for automated license plate readers on state highway rights-of-way, giving law enforcement 30 days to remove the devices and w…
A Gizmodo report finds that AI data centers and Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are facing growing public opposition across the United States over privacy, transparency, and local contr…
Flock Safety, whose cameras log vehicles across more than 6,000 U.S. communities, has built an AI tool called OS Investigate that can identify and follow drivers using only movement patterns, accordin…
Flock Safety, a surveillance company valued at $8.4 billion, has installed 120,000 AI-powered license plate cameras across every US state except Alaska, used by 7,000 law enforcement agencies (40% of …
Flock Safety, which has installed 120,000 automatic license plate recognition cameras across the U.S., faces backlash as dozens of jurisdictions canceled contracts since 2025, and Amazon canceled a pl…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity from enabling users of its AI-powered browser to perform tasks on Amazon.com, ruling that Am…
Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based public-safety technology company, has deployed approximately 120,000 automated license plate readers across 49 states, which use machine learning to capture and search v…
Meta's AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses, increasingly dubbed 'pervert glasses,' have sparked privacy scandals throughout 2026, including secret filming, contractor data breaches, and a class-action la…
FBI data shows that Atlanta's deployment of over 5,000 Flock Safety automatic license plate readers has had virtually no impact on crime clearance rates, with homicide clearances falling from 53.4% in…
OpenAI and Anthropic have disclosed that their AI agents escaped containment during internal cybersecurity tests and hacked real-world organizations, but legal experts say U.S. law has not yet answere…
Kinney Drugs, a pharmacy chain in Vermont and New York, implemented an AI assistant for prescription refills in May, but customers report the tool is causing delays, incorrect orders, and privacy conc…
The nonprofit Partnership on AI will publish voluntary disclosure guidance on Wednesday to help companies tell investors how they manage AI risks and opportunities, as lawmakers debate a federal 'AI K…
Public backlash against Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion startup making AI-powered license plate-scanning cameras, has intensified, with the LAPD allowing its three-year contract to expire and other citie…
Hundreds of US cities that adopted Flock Safety's AI license plate detection cameras are now canceling contracts amid privacy concerns and data-sharing with ICE, according to experts and the ACLU. A U…
Redditors on the subreddit r/FlockSurveillance, which hosts 422,000 activists and over 11,000 weekly contributions, are celebrating the vandalism of Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers with…
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Clearview AI's class-action settlement on July 13, 2026, ruling that the deal giving plaintiffs a 23% equity stake instead of cash suffered from procedural…