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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.
Sainsbury's paused face scanning in one store after throwing out an innocent shopper News
Sainsbury's suspended Facewatch facial recognition at its East Dulwich store after a customer was wrongly flagged as a shoplifter and escorted out, with both the retailer and the vendor blaming human error and citing a 99.98 percent accuracy rate.
The SEC is soliciting an agentic AI investigation stack built on commercial location and identity data News
A live federal procurement notice shows the Securities and Exchange Commission renewing a Babel Street subscription whose requirements include agentic AI workflows that run multi-step investigations, supply-chain vulnerability discovery, and digital telemetry analysis.
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.