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#SamAltman : 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of #AI https://slashdot.org/story/26/10/05/1525207/sam-altman-the-world-should-accept-some-bad-things-happening-for-the-benefits-of-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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#Texas city demands $2M for #publicrecords on #Flock usage
As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees—including charging tens of thousands or even millions—to get information about how police departments are using and potentially abusing AI-enabled #camera systems that track every vehicle that passes them.
On Monday, the Texas Tribune reported that city officials in a #FortWorth suburb, North Richland Hills, asked one group to pay $2.3 million before it would fulfill a public records request for Flock data. To reach that high fee, officials claimed that searching “about a terabyte worth of communications about errors, misuse, and effectiveness of the Flock system” would take approximately 14 years of labor at a rate of $15 per hour.
#privacy #surveillance #ai #foia #alprhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/
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#ElectionDeniers Think the GOP’s Terrible #Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’
Dozens and dozens of high profile #MAGA #influencers and #pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling out,” Catturd posted on X.
#elections #gop #psyop #votinghttps://www.wired.com/story/election-deniers-think-the-gops-terrible-midterm-polling-is-a-psyop/
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#ICE Has Been Dumping #Protester Photos Into a #Palantir #Database
#DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in #Maine , but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
#privacy #security #surveillance #facialrecognitionhttps://www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-dumping-protester-photos-into-a-palantir-database/
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#Apple changes full-disk access #permissions to curb abuse from #AIagents
Apple says it is changing its #macOS #privacy settings to stop third-party app #developers from misusing them to access message histories.Friday's announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose #AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over #AppleMessages. Aten said he never granted #Muse permissions to read his messages and had assumed they were off-limits. #Socialmedia last week blew up with masses of people who agreed and said the incident showed that #AIassistants given access to calendars, emails, messages, shopping accounts, and other resources are akin to a skill saw or other power tool. While potentially useful, they can do real damage if not used carefully.
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US Judge Rules #Flock #Search Was Mass #Surveillance. #BernieSanders Proposes 'Ban Flock Act'
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Federal Judge Rules a #Flock #Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
A federal judge in #Oklahoma ruled Thursday that a police officer violated the #FourthAmendment #rights of a woman accused of #meth trafficking when he searched her license plate in Flock’s automated license plate reader system simply because her license plate was from #California , then used her travel history as part of the reason to search her car. The judge’s opinion is one of the first times a federal judge has decided Flock searches can be #unconstitutional , and suggested that Flock’s network is “a type of indiscriminate mass #surveillance.”
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Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss #SocialMedia #Surveillance Lawsuit
Judge Allows Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit Against #Trump Administration to Move Forward
NEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and #HomelandSecurity for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move forward, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
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Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs
#Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet #infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American #Copyright Protection Act (#ACPA ), #HR10364 , a bill that would give copyright owners a new legal tool to block Americans’ access to foreign websites accused of copyright infringement.
The basic idea is all too familiar, … A copyright owner first asks a court to label a foreign website a “foreign #piracy site.” Once that happens, the copyright owner could seek orders requiring internet service providers, #DNS providers, &—new & explicit in this bill—#VPN providers to take “commercially reasonable steps” to stop their users in the USA from accessing those sites. The decision to label a website as a “foreign piracy site” can happen without the accused site even showing up in court to defend itself.
#privacy #securityhttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/congress-has-another-site-blocking-bill-and-one-targets-vpns