Flock Safety, operator of a controversial automated license plate reader (ALPR) database, outlined policy modifications on 2026-09-24 as the Senate prepares hearings addressing concerns over mass surveillance and privacy misuse.
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Flock Safety outlined a series of policy changes to its controversial database of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) as Washington mounts pressure on the company to prevent misuse of the technology. The letter from Flock's chief legal officer, Dan Haley, was sent earlier this month to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who is spearheading an investigation...
This OpEd by Cal Newport is very good. Choice quotes: “OpenAI often discusses these incidents as if it were a passive observer of an autonomous technology — a rhetorical gambit that acts as a smokescreen for bad behavior.” “We need to stop letting a small number of private companies, acting and talking in increasingly erratic ways, dictate how we’re supposed to feel about A.I.” https://www. nytime