civil-liberties
Everything on Ground Truth tagged “civil-liberties” — 3 items.
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Merkley propose federal restrictions on license-plate surveillance News
The proposed Ban Flock Act would restrict federal access to license-plate surveillance and use funding conditions to pressure state and local agencies.
Anthropic is building predictive surveillance that tracks activists, an investigation reports News
The American Prospect reports Anthropic is assembling a threat-intelligence operation that monitors protest activity and attempts to predict incidents before they happen, and that a company job posting lists "activism" alongside terrorism and nation-state threats.
LAPD lets its Flock license-plate surveillance contract lapse after false-positive stops News
LAPD allowed its Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader contract to expire on July 11 after false alerts led to innocent drivers being stopped - a rare rollback of already-deployed AI surveillance on civil-liberties grounds.