During President Donald Trump's winter immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gave thousands of newly hired deportation officers access to ELITE, …
In a podcast episode, 404 Media's Emanuel spoke to an Amazon warehouse worker who destroys books to train Amazon's AI products, following up on his earlier investigation into Amazon's book scanning pr…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring Boston Dynamics robot dogs for public safety, despite no ICE agents being killed in the line of duty in the past year. Flock Safety's AI-pow…
A new analysis warns that the U.S. is sleepwalking into an AI surveillance dystopia, where existing technology could enable mass surveillance and preemptive arrests of protesters. The piece, drawing o…
Flock Safety's communications team has stopped responding to media inquiries, telling reporters in an email that it is 'taking a break' and 'touching grass,' following a Washington Post investigation …
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has barred its workforce from using Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses on duty, citing a long-standing policy that prohibits personal recording devices to ensure…
Claire Stapleton, a former Google marketing manager who helped organize the 2018 walkout of about 20,000 employees, has released a memoir titled "Don't Be Evil" that criticizes the company's managemen…
Compute Exchange, a Palo Alto startup, launched forward contracts that let enterprises lock in AI inference token prices for up to six months, using competitive bidding among providers. The product ai…
Flock Safety announced new policies on Thursday to address police abuse of its AI surveillance cameras, following dozens of reported cases including the arrest of three Georgia deputies and the invest…
On June 25th, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the Trump Administration can strip Temporary Protected Status from 330,000 Haitians and 4,000 Syrians, enabling the 'Great Delegalization' that has …
USA Today Co, the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., announced a partnership with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences, as revealed in its second quarter earnings call. CE…
ICE has collected DNA from nearly 1 million people this year, including young children, and fed the samples into an FBI criminal database indefinitely, according to a WIRED investigation discussed on …
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…
A new nonprofit, the Technology Freedom Cooperative, is building human rights computing infrastructure in Puerto Rico, the EU, Canada, and Mexico to help Americans and others escape reliance on US tec…
Gilroy, a Bay Area city where three in five residents are Hispanic or Latino, is fighting a proposed ICE facility on its outskirts, with construction paused until Sept. 9 amid a lawsuit by Santa Clara…
The U.S. Department of Justice cited a nonexistent Sixth Circuit case in a filing to argue that an ICE detainee should remain locked up, according to a federal judge. Judge Hala Y. Jarbou of the Weste…
More than 100 Stanford University students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech to protest Google's contracts with the US and Israeli governments and ICE, creating an internati…
Former New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has joined the board of cryptocurrency exchange OKX as the company plans to expand into traditional finance. OKX aims to transform into a broader financial tec…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley apologized for calling activist group DeFlock a 'terroristic organization,' saying 'my comments were a mistake and I apologize' as the $8.3 billion surveillance compan…
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…