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The LAPD declined to renew its Flock contract after an internal audit found 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — a 32.3% false-positive rate. gadgetreview.com/one-in-three-a…

👁️Live facial recognition is quietly ending the right to anonymous protest. No democratic government should be treating free speech and assembly as a threat, nor unleashing biased algorithms that disproportionately target minorities onto our streets. Read more ⤵️ techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privac…

🚨 Knowledge is Power 🧠💪 ➡️Go to Atlasofsurveillance.org ➡️Identify local surveillance tech ➡️File FOIA/PRA requests ➡️Demand audits & transparency ➡️Track contract renewals ➡️Build a local coalition ➡️Show up to city council ➡️Hold officials accountable ➡️Repeat in next town

Police in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he was arrested 404media.co/cops-used-floc…

Employers are using AI to determine how desperate you are and give you the lowest possible wage. Welcome to the age of “surveillance wages.” You are likely already familiar with the digital sting of 'surveillance pricing'—such as airlines adjusting ticket fares based on loyalty-program data or retail sites raising prices on essentials by sensing customer urgency. Now, this same predatory logic is shifting from the marketplace into the employment relationship. Known as 'surveillance wages,' this emerging corporate strategy utilizes sophisticated AI and big data to analyze candidates' personal histories, credit scores, ZIP codes, and online behaviors. Instead of offering a salary based on standard experience, qualifications, or market standards, algorithms are being deployed to predict the absolute lowest pay rate a job seeker is desperate enough to accept. This algorithmic profiling frequently operates without the worker's knowledge or consent, turning intimate details—like whether an applicant has taken out a payday loan or possesses a high credit-card balance—into leverage for employers during pay negotiations. Experts warn that as these wage-setting models scale beyond the gig economy into traditional sectors like healthcare, retail, and customer service, they actively penalize vulnerable candidates. By detaching hard work from fair, standardized pay, dynamic wage-setting not only undercuts standard labor value but also opens a dangerous backdoor to systemic discrimination, making it harder than ever for job seekers to secure financial stability. source: Contino, G. (2026). Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept. MarketWatch.

“Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage” futurism.com/science-energy…

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports:

The number of Data Centers per country is mind-blowing. This shows who controls our internet, media and AI This is the infrastructure reality: 🇺🇸 United States — 4,423 data centres 🇬🇧 UK — 555 🇩🇪 Germany — 523 🇫🇷 France — 394 🇨🇳 China — 369 China is fifth. The US alone has more data centres than the next nine countries combined. Data centres are the physical backbone of our digital economy, cloud computing, and large-scale AI training and inference infrastructure. Quantity isn’t everything (power density, networking, and chip access matter), but a gap this wide is not a rounding error. It reflects years of capital deployment, energy availability, regulatory environments, and hyperscaler concentration. based on @alvinfoo data from @StatistaCharts infographic by @Investywise CC @efipm @YuHelenYu @Khulood_Almani @theomitsa @Victoryabro @sonu_monika @arlenenewbigg @EliseQuevedo @enricomolinari @kuriharan @jblefevre60 @thomaspower @enilev @Khulood_Almani @SpirosMargaris @mvollmer1 @Xbond49 @antgrasso @EstelaMandela @sallyeaves @alvinfoo @UrsBolt @albertogaruccio @BetaMoroney @globaliqx @psb_dc @Shi4Tech @FrRonconi @thinkers360 @Ronald_vanLoon @ipfconline1

Futurism: Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows ----- "Atlanta, Georgia has experienced far and away the largest influx of ALRPs in the country, with over 5,000 various Flock cameras now blanketing the city. Yet as bombshell data released by the FBI shows, the city’s massive web of surveillance has had virtually zero impact on the Atlanta Police Department’s ability to solve crime.." futurism.com/future-society…

This indicates Flock is monetizing the data.

DeFlock @therealDeFlock

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"Thursday morning, police found that five of the town’s six cameras had been reactivated by Flock “with no notification to the town.” 😞 #Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff lowellsun.com/2026/07/31/lit…

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New 'Axon' cameras are installed in Syracuse, with fresh data and transparency rules ----- They seem to think we'll accept mass surveillance as long as there are "rules" in place. The new Axon mass surveillance cameras do exactly what Flock mass surveillance cameras did, just wrapped in a "now with more transparency" marketing claim. But transparency doesn't stop the cameras from violating our rights. We will not allow our servants to turn our nation into digital prison. Nothing but the complete removal of all mass surveillance cameras is acceptable.

A California city just rolled out drive‑by AI scanners that auto‑flag: -Parking on dirt -Overgrown lawns -Unpermitted signs -Cracked driveways -Vehicle "violations" -Commercial equipment -Peeling paint, broken fences, damaged roofs Automated obedience checks. Not for crime... just for “noncompliance."

💊Facial recognition in your local NHS pharmacy @Facewatch is quietly pitching for its Orwellian tech to be installed in pharmacies. Nobody should be forced to trade their privacy for healthcare. We've written to @CommonsHealth asking them to investigate these plans urgently.

🦔Turn your sound on for this one. This is what it sounds like to live next to an AI data center, 24 hours a day. In Dowagiac, Michigan, residents sued after a facility run by Hyperscale Data ran around the clock at 78 decibels outside their homes. The company offered to buy their houses rather than fix the noise. One family has lived on that street for nearly a century. My Take This isn't one town with one bad facility. Microsoft faces a class-action in Wisconsin over data center noise residents can hear a mile and a half from the property line. In Virginia, one-third of data centers sit within 200 feet of homes. Noise from thousands of servers can hit 96 decibels, and diesel backup generators reach 105, which is a jet overhead. Residents report headaches, nausea, and sleep problems. Property values near this kind of infrastructure drop up to 20%. The company response in Michigan was to offer to buy the homes rather than quiet the facility, homes that families spent decades in, priced against a corporate buyout. Water in Oregon, wells in Georgia, ratepayer costs in Louisiana, river water in California, and now noise in Michigan and Wisconsin. None of this was in the brochure when these projects got approved. Closed-loop cooling and proper sound barriers exist and would solve most of this, but they cost more, so the companies skip them and the neighbors lose sleep and equity instead. Hedgie🤗

Police now claiming Flock destruction is an internet trend so they can add "conspiracy to commit a crime" to charges

🌪 A data center under construction in Indiana cut power the county’s outdoor tornado warning sirens just as severe weather rolled through the area, infuriating residents. One commenter's take on the latest data center fiasco: "Wow, a new way for data centers to kill us"

Ontario may be home to the largest share of AI data centres in Canada, and proposals for new ones in the GTA are piling up, but the Ford government has yet to unveil the rules governing which projects get approved & which get rejected. My exchange with Energy Minister Stephen Lecce here:

AI chatbots are increasingly used as life coaches, counselors, and therapists. Developers rely on mental health experts to test whether responses are safe. New research finds that expert disagreement makes that process unreliable; the scholars propose a path forward: hai.stanford.edu/news/stanford-…

THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯 A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words: "Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world." Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this." They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it. It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog." Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no. That's when they found the loophole. Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling. One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day. Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal. If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy. They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book. And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else. The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months. They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.

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👁️ Police will deploy live facial recognition in Nottinghamshire for the first time this Summer, subjecting innocent people to intrusive scans. “You can't imagine a situation in which the police would line everyone up on the high street and take their thumbprints” - Jasleen Chaggar