17+ min ago   (326+ words) Amid privacy concerns and reports of misuse, Florida law enforcement officials are highlighting the benefits they have seen from using the AI-powered Flock camera system. In Jacksonville, Flock’s License Plate Readers, or LPRs, have helped solve 15 murders, 17 kidnappings, six forcible…...

14+ hour, 48+ min ago   (384+ words) Uber has been fined €824.99million by the Dutch data protection authority after the regulator ruled that the company used fully automated systems to deactivate driver accounts without prior human assessment. The decisions were made automatically using software that monitored driving behaviour…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago   (329+ words) A dispute over automated account decisions has exposed a deeper conflict between platform rules, driver livelihoods, and Europe’s privacy safeguards. The Dutch data protection authority has fined Uber €825 million, approximately $966 million. According to Reuters, this is the second-largest penalty in…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (326+ words) (NewsNation) — A police officer in Bloomingdale, Illinois, has been placed on paid administrative leave after the department found indications he may have misused the city's Flock license plate camera system. The issue was discovered during an internal audit, according to…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (287+ words) Connecticut streamer Warren Pandiscia sued Amazon and Twitch on August 20, 2026, alleging the companies scraped millions of hours of streamer video since 2024 to train AI models without consent. The suit also targets Twitch's new opt-out AI-training toggle, enabled by default, after…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (108+ words) Everybody appearing at Taree District Court, Monday, August 24 The Daily Telegraph To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below. Facebook App: Open links in External Browser There is a specific issue with the Facebook in-app browser intermittently making…...

1+ hour, 48+ min ago   (457+ words) TikTok has agreed to pay $400m (£293m) to the US to settle a lawsuit alleging its platform violated children‘s privacy, marking one of the largest-ever settlements over the issue. The deal stems from a 2024 suit by the Department of Justice, under…...

3+ hour, 43+ min ago   (467+ words) Irmo’s plans to expand its use of Flock Safety cameras around town is back in the news after two of the license-plate readers were vandalized last week. Two of the cameras in the town northwest of Columbia were sprayed over…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (394+ words) The settlement follows years of scrutiny over how the platform handled children’s data and a previous federal privacy penalty. TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit over violations…...

3+ hour, 14+ min ago   (49+ words) Flock Safety alternatives: new names, same surveillance NPR Flock Safety alternatives: new names, same surveillance Strong public backlash has lead dozens of cities to cancel their contracts with Flock Safety, which makes license plate readers for police departments. But what…...