Apple's macOS 27 Release Candidate leaked footage reveals camera-enabled AirPods using Visual Intelligence, allowing users to ask Siri to analyze objects and save information. The leak, uncovered by A…
Flock, the police-tech company operating about 120,000 automatic license plate readers across the US, announced changes to its platform on August 13, 2026, to prevent misuse after the Washington Post …
Axios reports that activists and citizens across the political spectrum are pushing back against license plate readers made by Flock and similar companies, fueled by privacy concerns and suspected pol…
The Wall Street Journal reports that public opposition to artificial intelligence is growing across the U.S., with Flock cameras and data centers becoming unwelcome in several communities. On Thursday…
Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project generates adversarial patterns that defeated all 11 open-source detection algorithms he tested, including software behind Flock license plate readers, Axon body…
Mark Zuckerberg's plan for Meta's AI agents, described as 'superintelligent,' is the focus of a 404 Media podcast episode, with the hosts noting the agents 'don't sound fun at all.' The episode also c…
A new crowdfunded clothing brand called noRecognition, founded by former chief intelligence officer Bill Swearingen, claims its garments feature patterns that can scramble 11 computer vision models, b…
Flock, the controversial surveillance company, pitched a plan to turn Uber and Lyft drivers into a network of roaming surveillance vehicles by using their dashcams to scan license plates, according to…
Crime fiction writers are struggling to keep their stories plausible amid the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras and data brokers, with authors like Samantha Downing and Mark Coggins ada…
Google's AI Overview claimed that Flock safety cameras contain $650 in gold and 23 pounds of copper, but the claim was based on a meme and is false. The erroneous information appeared in Google's AI-g…
Several U.S. cities have removed Flock's automatic license plate reader cameras and replaced them with Axon's ALPR systems, which include AI-powered streetlamp cameras and patrol vehicle cameras, acco…
Google's AI Overview briefly told users that Flock cameras contain up to 5 grams of gold and 23 pounds of copper, a hallucination based on a viral joke, according to a Futurism report. The incorrect i…
Jonathan Paz, a former government affairs manager at Flock, quit the company in July 2025, alleging it lied about its AI-powered license-plate cameras' use and silenced critics. Paz said Flock gave IC…
Cambridge Analytica's former website, CambridgeAnalytica.org, has been resurrected as an AI-powered content farm rebranded as CA Privacy Watch, according to a 404 Media investigation. The site churns …
A Casa Grande, Arizona man named Jacob Petrosky used a satirical proposal to protest the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, announcing a fake company called Shepherd Safety that would use AI-po…
A podcast episode reveals that police are using Flock surveillance technology to track people, not just vehicles, with searches like 'male with tattoos.' The episode also covers a company selling book…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys designed to uncover whether police used surveillance technologies—including …
Flock has canceled its audio surveillance pilot program that used always-on microphones to detect human screams, following widespread public backlash and vandalism of its cameras. The Electronic Front…
A journalist for The Drive was wrongly arrested by Plymouth, Minnesota police after Flock license plate cameras flagged his loaned Range Rover as stolen due to a data entry error by the Los Angeles Po…
Flock surveillance cameras erroneously flagged a journalist's rental car as stolen, leading to an armed police confrontation in Minnesota. The error stemmed from the AI misreading a license plate numb…