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
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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This article comes from “naturalnews.com” At least nine Flock automated license plate readers are monitoring traffic lanes used by drivers entering the Pentagon’s parking lots, according to contract documents and publicly available imagery reviewed in a Sept. 25, 2026, report by Brett Heinz in Responsible Statecraft[1]. The devices were installed in late 2024 and early
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
From “The Disturbing Illusion” Is THIS the Beginning of the End of MASS SURVEILLANCE? Or is this just more bread and circuses until they can complete the dragnet circle they’re drawing around us?
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From “reclaimthenet.org” The government calls it safer. Privacy campaigners will see a digital door policy taking shape. When you’re at a bar and the bartender asks for your ID, you will now be able to pull out your phone and open an app, instead of rummaging through your wallet or purse for a physical document,
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