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Police Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera Searches
21+ hour, 3+ min ago (319+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 6:01 AM EDT In case you thought the extreme backlash against automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) was excessive, a veteran police investigator was just arrested after conducting over 4,000 unauthorized searches using the software provided by Flock Safety. According to…...
Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans' Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (295+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 10:01 AM EDT The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive policing” units in the US Border Patrol are analyzing Americans’ financial activity and using it as a pretext to…...
Man Arrested After Allegedly Shooting Flaming Projectile at Flock Cameras, Melting Them Into Slag
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (321+ words) Published Sep 7, 2026 9:01 AM EDT A man is facing numerous felony charges in Georgia after police allege he allegedly used a bizarre projectile to melt automatic license plate readers into smoldering heaps of metal and plastic. According to Fox5 in Atlanta, 25-year-old…...
Pervs Distraught as Meta Bricks Their Smart Glasses Remotely
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (296+ words) Published Sep 7, 2026 7:01 AM EDT In an affront to creeps everywhere, Meta has started remotely bricking the smart glasses of wearers who try to secretly record other people. Earlier this month, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company said it would crack down on…...
People Are Telling Their Darkest Thoughts to AI Without Realizing They Can Easily Become Public
1+ week, 1+ day ago (351+ words) Published Sep 5, 2026 9:01 AM EDT Talking to an AI chatbot can feel like confiding in a mirror, a private exchange equivalent to brainstorming in a Word document. Yet when it comes to the most popular AI chatbots, that mirror is really…...
Man Rolls Up to Police Station With Pickup Truck Full of Torn Up Flock Cameras
1+ week, 3+ day ago (259+ words) Published Sep 3, 2026 5:03 PM EDT While most of the vandals ripping down automatic license plate readers prefer to go incognito, an Albuquerque character named Jevon Martinez isn’t afraid to show his face. “Since [Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department] is busy — I know…...
Burning Man Has a Meta AI Glasses Problem
1+ week, 4+ day ago (493+ words) Published Sep 2, 2026 10:54 AM EDT There’s a burning question on the minds of those about to attend one of the world’s most iconic festivals this summer: how should they deal with Meta smart glasses? As controversy around the gadgets grows, some…...
Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of "Millions" of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit
1+ week, 4+ day ago (391+ words) Published Sep 2, 2026 8:41 AM EDT An ongoing class action lawsuit against Meta, which accuses the tech giant of misrepresenting its privacy practices regarding its controversial Meta AI Glasses, was amended yesterday to include a new class of “bystander” plaintiffs who claim…...
Flock Is in Major Trouble
1+ week, 5+ day ago (320+ words) Published Sep 1, 2026 2:40 PM EDT As backlash against surveillance grows, governments overseeing cities, townships, and counties around the US are dropping their Flock contracts at a record pace — a retreat so widespread that some say it could affect the company’s viability....
Instead of Using Opioid Settlement Money to Help Poor Communities, Police Are Buying Flock Cameras to Play With
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (344+ words) Published Aug 30, 2026 6:01 AM EDT With over 100,000 automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) sprouting out of the ground over the past few years, you might be tempted to ask: “with what money?” Drug money, as it turns out, though it’s not exactly…...