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Use of cameras, facial recognition and other monitoring technology by police forces, and the legal challenges brought against it.
Six local police and eight HSI agents surveilled an April 2 Chicago talk by Minnesota activists, according to defense documents WIRED reviewed. The defense team for 15 activists facing federal felony charges released the four-page report in their case.
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley said the company has ended no contract over abuse, though dozens of officers were arrested, fired or told to resign. He named knowing lawbreaking as the trigger, so a buyer has to write its own rule for smaller cases.
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Federal judge Sara E. Hill ruled Oct. 1 that a Tulsa County deputy's warrantless search of Flock's cross-state camera network was unconstitutional. The search she faulted was a plate lookup run without probable cause, the query a plate-reader network is built around, so agencies now have to decide how they control it.
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Police need a warrant to search Flock Safety's plate database, which Techdirt says takes in 20 billion images a month, a federal court has ruled. The decision binds no other court, but lawyers fighting plate-reader searches elsewhere can now cite it.
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Hackers pulled a camera off a roadway, recovered the encryption key stored inside it, and handed the files to 404 Media and WIRED. The joint analysis found a person detector inside an automatic license plate reader.
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A rage-bait creator filmed a transfeminine designer at a Delhi protest through Wayfarer-styled Meta glasses. The only warning the product offers is an LED, and tutorials already teach wearers how to cover it.
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