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Police AI Drones Take the Surveillance State Airborne

From “thenewamerican.com” Police departments across the country are deploying autonomous drones that can launch from rooftops, fly beyond visual range, track vehicles, and transmit live video directly to police command centers. Increasingly, artificial intelligence helps analyze those feeds, flag objects, and connect aerial surveillance with other police data. Federal funding is helping speed the buildout.

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Flock Safety Cuts Data Retention to 7 Days After Jurisdictions, Lawmakers Push Back

This article comes from “naturalnews.com” Flock Safety, one of the largest providers of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in the nation, announced on Aug. 13 that it will reduce default data retention from 30 days to seven days, require police to attach case numbers to searches, and make automated audits mandatory for all law enforcement

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The Trump Administration Is Building A Pre Crime Panopticon Unlike Any Authoritarian Regime Before It

From “The Free Thought Project” From mass surveillance through flock cameras, spying on political dissidents, and AI algorithms designating citizens as potential domestic terrorists, the surveillance state being established by the Trump administration is unparalleled even when compared to the most totalitarian regimes throughout history. As of late American citizens have been more concerned with

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First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones

From “The Free Thought Project” Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI. Police in cities across the U.S. are rolling out a pro-drone PR blitz as hundreds of local police departments prepare to deploy autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones. The drones are capable of following a single

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The Flock Files: A warning we can’t afford to ignore

This article comes from “naturalnews.com” You know that feeling when you’re driving home, and you pass a camera mounted on a streetlight, and something deep in your gut tells you this isn’t right? “The Flock Files: How Surveillance Cameras Are Stealing Your Freedom” puts words to that unease and transforms it into a battle cry.

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A Head for an Eye: The Government’s War on the American People

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. “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win

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Police Are Deploying 60 MPH Autonomous Drones to Read Your License Plate from the Sky

From “The Free Thought Project” The addition of a 60 MPH drone scanning plates from the clouds is a massive escalation in the modern surveillance state. If you thought Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) were deeply invasive when they were just mounted to neighborhood stop signs and hidden inside speed trailers, you might

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Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Your Own Surveillance

From “Man In America” They’re building a digital prison in America and there is an insane amount of money behind it. I walk through how Flock’s ALPR cameras feed a searchable national database, how Axon is quietly replacing every canceled Flock contract, why the phone in your pocket is a bigger tracker than any camera

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