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Police in Winona, Minnesota, are asking the public for information after the department’s Flock license plate reader cameras were cut down and stolen.
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Someone cut down and stole every Flock camera in this Minnesota town


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    How Roombas got swept up in a ban on importing robots

  • Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is Minnesota over a law banning technology that can be used to generate artificial nude imagery.
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    Jul 29
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    New Minnesota law will ban AI-generated nude deepfakes. Elon Musk’s company wants to block it

  • A high school physics teacher in Kansas was arrested at a city commission meeting last week after clapping in support of an anti-data center speaker.
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    High school teacher arrested at city meeting after clapping for anti-data center speech

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    The pope’s prayer app has been leaking its users’ info for months

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    Jul 15
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    Another police officer has been charged for abusing Flock surveillance technology

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  • At-home DNA company 23andMe agreed to a multi-million-dollar settlement with 41 states and D.C. over a data breach. Is yours one of them?
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    23andMe customers in dozens of states will get paid after $150M data breach settlement

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    LAPD cancels Flock contract after cameras falsely flagged vehicles as stolen

  • A police detective in Milwaukee tasked with investigating a fellow officer’s misuse of the department’s Flock license plate reader camera system has now been accused of misusing it himself.
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    Milwaukee detective is latest officer charged with misusing Flock cameras

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    Smart glasses users were secretly recording others. Meta says it found a fix

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    Hackers deface US Army websites to attack Trump

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    Congressman says hack of his Signal account proves app is unsecure. Is it true?

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    Use Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ Feature? This could expose your real one

  • The Supreme Court on Monday sent a case involving “geofence warrants,” a tool used by law enforcement to gather location data, back to a lower court.
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    Jun 29
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    Supreme Court throws out ‘geofence’ warrant case, sends back to lower court

  • A Virginia city installed a Flock gun shot detector on a woman’s front lawn despite the location not being approved for such devices.
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    Jun 29
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    After a Flock device appeared on her lawn, Virginia woman wondered ‘who’s listening’

  • The U.S., founded to thwart an oppressive monarchy, operates the most far-reaching and powerful surveillance machine in world history.
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    In the modern surveillance state, someone’s always watching

  • The prediction market company Polymarket revealed that hackers were able to steal funds from an undisclosed number of users.
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    Jun 26
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    Hackers reportedly steal millions after targeting Polymarket users

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    Twin earthquakes devastate Venezuela; GOP senators reverse course after Trump clash

  • Dialog, the invite-only network founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, claims it was hacked after it left its private data exposed.
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    Jun 24
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    Where Peter Thiel’s secret network is placing blame for data leak

  • Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
    Jun 23
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    Private data leaked after Meta tracks employees’ keystrokes to train AI

  • Aubrey Cottle, a Canadian hacker known online as “Kirtaner,” faces as much as two and a half years in prison in Ontario — and perhaps more time in the U.S. — for a cyberattack on the Republican Party of Texas.
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    Jun 19
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    Hacker pleads guilty to breach of Texas GOP website

  • The UK's newly proposed social media ban for children may push kids toward free VPN apps. Experts say 38% of them contain malware.
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    Jun 16
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    Could the UK’s ban on social media lead kids to worse dangers?

  • A company that sells baby monitors around the U.S. continues to face backlash for their ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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    Jun 16
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    Missouri targets baby monitor company over China ties

  • A data leak has exposed private data on billionaire Peter Thiel’s “Dialog,” an invitation-only network of high-profile figures.
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    Peter Thiel’s ‘Dialog’ network was super-secret. A data leak changed that

  • Meta has been testing facial recognition software from a defense contractor as it debates whether to introduce the technology into its smart glasses.
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    Jun 15
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    Meta tests smart glasses with defense contractor’s facial recognition software

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