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U.S. Congress's scrutiny of technology firms, including hearings, letters and document demands on surveillance, AI and data practices.
A Senate subcommittee will ask four camera vendors on Sept. 23 who has access to hundreds of millions of Americans' data. Verkada answered in writing first and said its chief executive cannot attend.
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The president told reporters he likes Flock's license plate readers, a month after Josh Hawley opened a formal investigation into the company's data practices and Greg Abbott halted Texas state funding for the cameras.
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A Republican senator wants a count of confirmed misuse across a 120,000-camera network. Only a product that logs who searched what, and why, can produce one.
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A designation would restrict what American vendors can ship to Appin, and because the Entity List covers exports and not services, the law firms and foreign courts the company has used against reporters stay available.
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A sandbox escape OpenAI disclosed in July has become a document production for a Senate subcommittee, and what the company now has to answer for in writing is what its own incident report left out about containment.
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Tempe's monthly audits found no misuse, and it switched the cameras off anyway on Wednesday, three hours before a Republican-leaning neighbour did the same and Josh Hawley opened a formal investigation.
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