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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (764+ words) Published on 19 September 2026 By Sam Gelder for Liberty Investigates and Lucas Amin for Democracy for Sale Five police forces in England are ending a controversial surveillance deal with the tech company Palantir, Liberty Investigates and Democracy for Sale can reveal....
Bakersfield Police Credit Flock Cameras in Child Sex Crime Arrests
14+ hour, 13+ min ago (179+ words) Bakersfield police say automated license plate readers contributed to investigations into two alleged sex crimes involving children this month. One case involves the alleged kidnapping and rape of an 11-year-old girl; in the other, a suspect allegedly met with a…...
Cops Used???LMAO,??????Idk??? And Keyboard Gibberish To Justify License Plate Searches
23+ hour, 30+ min ago (20+ words) Flock tightened its search system, but critics argue its new dropdown menu could make questionable searches even harder to spot...
Ex-Braintree Officer Accused of Tracking Ex With Flock Cameras
1+ day, 32+ min ago (134+ words) The central issue in the case against former Braintree police officer Mark Sherrick is not only how often a former girlfriend’s vehicle was tracked. It is also whether the safeguards surrounding an automated license-plate-reader system were capable of detecting or…...
Boston Police Add LifeRaft AI Surveillance Tool
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (155+ words) Those rules create several distinct questions about LifeRaft: whether it was treated as new surveillance technology, whether police relied on the exigent-circumstances exception, and whether any subsequent report was filed. The materials available here answer none of them. The absence…...
‘Near impossible’ to prosecute license plate reader company accused of violating Maine law, DA says
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (516+ words) The Bangor Daily News was the first to report this story. What you’re reading here would likely not be made public without the efforts of professional journalists asking questions, interviewing sources and obtaining documents. It would be nearly impossible to…...
Appeals court rules officers can search phones at border without warrant or probable cause
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (214+ words) Original article here An Appeals Court ruled Thursday that officers working at the U.S. border can search travelers' phones without a warrant, probable cause or reasonable suspicion. The case was brought by an individual who had his phone searched and was…...
Flock camera system use, ICE enforcement issues divide Encinitas candidates
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (500+ words) Views on the use of the Flock camera systems at city intersections and federal agents’ immigration enforcement activity divided the six candidates seeking Encinitas city elected positions Thursday during a voter forum. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters North…...
Sen. Josh Hawley invites Flock surveillance company CEOs to testify at Senate hearing
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (535+ words) U.S. Senator Josh Hawley invited the CEO's of companies behind the automated license plate readers, commonly known as Flock cameras, to testify in front of Congress. The announcement follows Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe's executive order placing stricter regulations on the AI…...
UK Police Data at Risk of Foreign Access, Security Assessment Warns
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (943+ words) Sensitive information held by more than 40 police forces across the UK is stored on Microsoft Azure cloud services despite a previous security assessment warning that the data could be vulnerable to foreign actors and other cyber threats. The information includes…...