Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

Mayor Matt Mahan is pushing for more real-time supervision of license-plate reader data and the closure of a legislative loophole to make unauthorized access expressly illegal.

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“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

A new Siri AI feature lets newer Apple Watch models quietly listen in and deliver "high-level" summaries of your conversations.

Flock deserves the heat it’s getting, but switching to another provider won’t necessarily improve anything

The public housing authority in Concord, N.H., installed monitoring devices in 300 homes. Tenants are now suing to remove the Minut sensors.

New FBI data shows case closure rates for the Atlanta Police Department have not improved despite thousands of ALPRs installed since 2021.

Parton lost friends to AIDS in the 1980s and put her production company Sandollar behind Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, the documentary about the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt that wen…

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Shop enamel pins enamored by hacker culture by TheGarbageFile located in San Francisco, California.

SACRAMENTO — Businesses in California may be spared a potential avalanche of new lawsuits, which critics say would have cost the state economy hundreds of billions of dollars in coming

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

It's usually very difficult to investigate the advertising industry. A new tool called DecryptAds aims to make it much easier with a massive dataset anyone can query.

ACLU responds to surveillance company Flock's announcement of changes to license plate reader system.

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A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.

Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

Whoops, was that the duress password?

A number of guests said they would be reluctant to appear at conventions again after cases of recordings taking place without their knowledge.

People in tech circles are carefully recording every single conversation they're having — not just at work but in their private lives as well.

Flock's CEO Garrett Langley says people don't understand the capabilities of its ALPR system, but they do.

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.

Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing your movements without a warrant. But we're not powerless. More and more communities are rejecting these creepy cameras — and yours can be one of them!