surveillance
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.
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.