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…
TikTok creator Plonk is teaching viewers how to blind AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety, a network used by roughly one-third of U.S. law enforcement agencies. His satirical videos prom…
Flock Safety's surveillance cameras, including AI-powered license plate readers and audio-detection poles, are rapidly spreading across the US, logging every car and enabling law enforcement to search…
Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, which track vehicles and individuals beyond just license plates, have rapidly proliferated to over 100,000 units nationwide, raising privacy and civil l…
A viral chart predicting open-weights AI models will catch closed frontier models by December 2026 is misleading, as analysis across 18 benchmarks shows the gap varies by task and is not uniformly shr…
A free, open-source route planner called DeFlock is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers operated by Flock Safety, which has over 100,000 AI cameras in a national surveillance network…
Florida's facial recognition system FACESNXT has led to at least two documented wrongful arrests, with Jalil Richardson spending 93 days in jail and Robert Dillon losing his job after being falsely ma…
The FCC is moving to ban burner phones, a move that would impact privacy advocates and criminals alike. The proposal aims to require identification for prepaid mobile phone purchases, citing national …
Two Florida men were wrongfully arrested after AI facial recognition software falsely identified them as suspects in separate crimes, with one spending nearly three months in jail and losing his job, …
Meta embedded unreleased face-recognition code, internally named "NameTag," into the Meta AI app used with Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, according to a WIRED code review. The code, added as early …
On May 20, 2026, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a formal investigation into Meta's AI glasses over concerns about the device's "always enabled" recording mode, which continuously processes…