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…
Truthout reports that Palantir will design and deploy a tool to track USDA employees' return to the office, as AI-driven workplace surveillance intensifies. Jay Stanley of the ACLU warned that AI has …
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called critics of the company's automated license-plate reader network 'terroristic' in a July 9, 2026 report, escalating a privacy backlash that has led at least 30 l…
Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature called NameTag to its smart glasses, allowing wearers to identify people and access information via the Meta AI assistant, according to internal document…
ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, the agency's internal watchdog, is investigating online critics for alleged doxing and threats, with 131 cases opened between January 2025 and March 2026. …
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 30, 2026, that states may bar transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho. The decision, which va…