From “She Prepares” Amazon drivers are now being asked to photograph certain homes as part of the delivery process, raising questions about what is being captured, where those images go, and whether customers can actually opt out. In this video, I’m breaking down what Amazon is doing, why these photos are being taken, and what
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From Anthony Sistilli I built a camera to watch police cars. Then two officers showed up at my front door. That sent me deeper into Flock, surveillance, and what is happening in my own neighbourhood.
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This article comes from “naturalnews.com” A federal judge in Tulsa, Oklahoma ruled Thursday, Oct. 1, that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when he searched for her license plate in Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader system without a warrant, marking one of the first times a federal court has declared such
From “reclaimthenet.org” The Ban Flock Act would restrict federal use of Flock ALPR data and automated license plate readers. A new US bill, Ban Flock Act, has been introduced, with the aim of stopping the federal government from using automated license plate readers (ALPRs). “Flock is eviscerating the very notion of privacy by installing tens
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This article comes from “naturalnews.com” The United States Postal Service is running a pilot program to install cameras in mail carrier trucks that scan roads and signs, map roadways and sidewalks, and improve community safety, according to a letter posted by a labor union and a statement from the agency to 404 Media. The USPS
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From “reason.com” AI-powered license plate readers flagged an abnormal driving pattern. Then officers made up reasons to pull him over and interrogated him, and they faked a K-9 alert to justify a nonconsensual search.A federal jury on Monday found Bexar County, Texas, liable for systematically violating thousands of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights for years through
This article comes from “naturalnews.com” Flock Safety has promised its license plate cameras will never do facial recognition, but a lesser-known surveillance vendor is telling police it can add the capability anyway. In a May sales email sent to a deputy police chief in Johnson City, Tennessee, video analysis company VIDIZMO pitched a platform that
This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institution It has been republished with permission from the author. Please contact the author directly for republishing information. “If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich America, you got fooled. Again. For starters, the war on illegal immigration was never just
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From “The Libertarian Institute” The 1998 action thriller Enemy of the State (RIP Gene Hackman) imagined a world in which government surveillance could follow an ordinary citizen almost anywhere, drawing on cameras, communications data, and increasingly sophisticated technology to monitor his movements. What once played as an exaggerated warning about the surveillance state now looks
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From “reason.com” Federal appeals courts differ on whether the Fourth Amendment protects your cellphone at the border. A Texas lawyer is asking the Supreme Court to settle it.What started as a “narrow constitutional exception” now “threatens to swallow the protection it was meant only to qualify,” according to an amicus brief filed last week by