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The Air Force Office of Special Investigations has certified a group of drone operators to use the Skydio X10D for surveillance and outdoor crime scene monitoring. The certification precedes the drone's broader fielding across the service.
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A change to California's wiretapping law would eliminate the ability of private individuals to sue over certain forms of internet tracking and online surveillance. The move has drawn opposition from privacy advocates and labor unions, while businesses back the update.
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Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance systems are expanding faster than existing laws can regulate them. Legal frameworks designed for older surveillance technologies are struggling to address the capabilities and reach of Flock's tools.
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Cambridgeshire Constabulary conducted its first live facial recognition deployment in Cambridge, resulting in arrests and positive identifications of individuals flagged by the system.
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Lux Bond & Green, a jewelry retailer, has disclosed its use of facial recognition technology as Connecticut's new rules requiring such disclosures take effect. The state's requirements appear to compel businesses to inform the public when they deploy facial recognition in consumer-facing settings.
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A Texas city has set a $2 million price tag on public records requests seeking information about local police use of Flock Safety's license plate surveillance system. The move comes as public resistance to Flock's expanding network of cameras grows across the country.
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The Supreme Court is set to hear Salazar v. Paramount Global, a privacy case brought under the Video Privacy Protection Act. Legal analysts are looking to existing pixel tracking litigation under ECPA and CIPA as potential frameworks that could shape how the Court approaches online tracking and surveillance questions.
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Citrix confirmed late on Friday that it was “tracking a newly observed issue” related to some customer-managed NetScaler deployments but claimed the problem was not connected to vulnerabilities reported last week that also caused alarm among cybersecurity experts.
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The San Francisco Police Department is using camera surveillance technology that was previously deployed by Israeli forces to monitor Palestinians, according to reporting by the San Francisco Standard. Critics have described the department's broader approach to surveillance as 'surveillance maximalism.'
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is testing walk-through facial recognition technology as part of a long-sought effort to build a biometric exit system at land border crossings.
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Federal lawmakers introduced several bills this week targeting AI oversight, including proposals for AI research competitions, a ban on federal use of biometric technology, and new rules around data center construction.
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A federal judge has ruled that a search conducted using Flock, a license plate reader network, constituted indiscriminate mass surveillance and violated constitutional protections. The decision challenges how law enforcement has been using the widespread camera system to track vehicle movements.
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The plaintiffs, who all worked for the independent and Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, failed to convince the court that their case had jurisdiction in California, according to the judge’s order.
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Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has new legislation on limiting automated license plate readers (ALPRs), while Democratic Sens. Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have teed up a broader bill.
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Patrick McCabe, a 16-year-old with cerebral palsy, passed his GCSEs at Fallibroome Academy in Macclesfield using eye-tracking technology, completing his exams over four months. He has since begun A-levels in French and business.
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St. Lucie County, Florida found roughly a dozen Flock license plate cameras installed without county permission and with no identifiable owner. The origin of the cameras remains unknown, raising concerns about who is collecting surveillance data and under what authority.
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New campaign finance disclosure data reveals how much US political campaigns, parties, and committees are spending on AI tools, according to analysis published in The Guardian. Campaigns themselves have been largely silent about the specific ways they are deploying the technology.
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A cyber operator can spend a shift tracking an adversary halfway around the world, walk to the parking lot, and be home in time for dinner. There is no flight home, no demobilization, and no transition from an operational mission back to ordinary life. The war zone is a commute away. That arrangement looks like one of the advantages of cyber warfare. It is also becoming one of its human costs.Bloomberg reported in August that as many as five people working at or alongside U.S. Cyber Command took their own lives in a five-week period in June and July this The post Cyber Operators Are Deployed…
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Facial recognition technology is being deployed in Bradford as part of local crime-fighting efforts. The BBC report examines how the technology is being used by authorities in the area.
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Italy has activated a real-time facial recognition system, while the European Union is separately assessing the risks such technology poses to fundamental rights. The move comes as the EU AI Act's rules on biometric surveillance are still being interpreted and applied across member states.
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Jacksonville police have been linked to wrongful arrests tied to facial recognition technology, drawing attention to how law enforcement agencies are deploying the tools in ways that lead to misidentification and serious harm to individuals.
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California is overhauling rules that have fueled thousands of lawsuits over web tracking, a change that could effectively kill a large share of pending litigation against companies that collect data on site visitors.
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Rumors suggest Apple is developing a home device, referred to as the 'HomePad,' that would use AI-powered facial recognition to identify users rather than the Face ID system found on iPhones and iPads.
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Police in Cambridge are set to deploy live facial recognition technology for the first time, marking an expansion of the surveillance tool into another UK city.
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