Plate Privacy
Campaign to stop warrantless use of license plate cameras By Dan King In August, the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced the launch of a nationwide campaign to push back against the arbitrary and unrestrained use…
Is There a Silicon Valley Plan to Subvert Elections?
Commentary by Matt Stoller “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis Brandeis The creation of a new political slush fund by titans in Silicon Valley could…
Inside SF’s Private Surveillance State
The privatization of public safety (and spy cameras) is a costly threat to all of us By Ian Firstenberg California’s constitution opens with a broad, likely familiar, proclamation added on Nov. 5, 1974. “All people…
Shotspotter Starts Listening
Flock’s gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices By Matthew Guariglia Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States,…
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records
By Joseph Cox A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring…
Israeli War Tech Repurposed to Police World’s Public Spaces
By Al Mayadeen English Born from decades of occupation and digital warfare, Israeli AI surveillance tech could spread the same systems of control and repression far beyond occupied Palestine. A new Israeli startup, Scanary, has…
Israel Wants to Pay US Pastors a Stipend
to Spread the Word By Nick Cleveland-Stout A newly-created firm called Show Faith by Works is embarking on a “geofencing” campaign to target Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-Israel advertisements. The…
The Eighth Front
Israel’s digital Iron Dome and the narrative battle By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the “Eighth Front” of his war as the battle over truth. “Seven fronts against Iran and…
How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?
The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy By Servaas Storm OpenAI’s Altman boasted that AGI can “discover new science,” because “I think we’ve cracked reasoning in the models,” adding that “we’ve a long way to…
Wikipedia: ‘Speedy Deletion’ for AI Slop
By Emanuel Maiberg Wikipedia editors has adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly…