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CBP Is Testing Palmer Luckey's AI-Powered Surveillance Towers in the Great Lakes
Documents obtained by 404 Media show an expansion of Anduril's surveillance technology on the U.S.-Canada border.
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Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians
'Not ideal:' NHTSA is learning about driverless car incidents from Reddit videos because its safety incident reporting form is deeply flawed, internal emails show.
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Our Second FOIA Forum! 11/30, 1PM EST
We are hosting our second FOIA Forum at the end of November. Join the livestream, file FOIAs with us, get tips, and more.
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AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They're Everywhere
Hundreds of documents obtained by 404 Media show how Fusus, a system for linking a town’s security cameras into one central hub and adding AI to them, has spread across the country.
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Inside ICE’s Database for Finding ‘Derogatory’ Online Speech
Thumbs up, or thumbs down: that's the option presented to analysts when the tool Giant Oak Search Technology surfaces content from social media and other sources for ICE to scrutinize.
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Video Reveals Crucial Details of LAPD Ignoring Robbery to Catch Togetic in Pokémon Go
'The guys are going to be so jealous': Video reveals cops ignored robbery, blew a stop sign, sped over speed bumps on residential streets, and pulled an illegal u-turn, but were able to capture two very powerful Pokémon.
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Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.
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U.S. Counterintel Buys Access to the Backbone of the Internet to Hunt Foreign Hackers
Getting information from the NSA would take too long, according to internal documents from a counterintelligence agency. So it turned to Team Cymru to buy netflow data that can allow analysts to track activity through virtual private networks.
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Here's the Video Archive of the First FOIA Forum
For those who couldn't make it, here is a video recording of our recent FOIA forum.
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Inside ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets ICE Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players
ShadowDragon tracks BabyCenter, a website for people expecting children, as well as social media sites specifically for Black people, bodybuilders, and the fetish community.
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Our First FOIA Forum! 09/14, 2PM EST
We are hosting our first FOIA Forum next Thursday. Join the livestream, file FOIAs with us, get tips, and more.
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Florida Demands Thousands of Dollars for Public Records About Ron DeSantis's Culture War in Schools
$7,741 to search emails about AP Psychology. $2,416 for details about why a substitute teacher was fired after posting video of empty library bookshelves. $360.20 for documents a school district first claimed didn't exist.