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How the American revolt against Flock cameras mirrors the Boston Tea Party of 1773

From elsewhere — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:33:00 +0000

A license plate recognition camera is seen in Boulder. Colo., on March 5, 2026. Matthew Jonas/MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images By G. Patrick O’Brien, University of Tampa A grassroots revolt against automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, has gained momentum across the United States. ALPRs are AI-powered cameras that capture images of all passing vehicles. The camera systems turn details into datapoints searchable by anyone with access to the information. Today, there are more than 130,000 ALPRs on...

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Tennessee woman falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota, sues for $10m over AI facial recognition

From elsewhere — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:25:27 +0000

The Guardian reports: A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her. Angela Lipps, 50, was arrested at gunpoint by US marshals at her home in Tennessee while babysitting her neighbor’s four children in July 2025. The mother of three and grandmother of...

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Did OpenAI carry out the biggest IP heist of all-time?

From elsewhere — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:26:18 +0000

The Hollywood Reporter reports: VCR recordings. Book digitization. The use of existing code to build a new operating system. The legality of some of the most consequential technology and products in the last century have come down to a singular question: Are they protected under fair use, the legal doctrine allowing the use of copyrighted works without a license? Now, that question has become the central battleground in landmark lawsuits between publishers, studios and recording companies against artificial intelligence companies...

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Trump’s widening attacks on the First Amendment

From elsewhere — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:25:46 +0000

Adam Serwer writes: On the first day of his second term in the White House, President Trump signed an executive order on free speech stating that his administration would ensure that “no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.” He has gone on to violate that order many times. Trump announced today on his social-media network, Truth Social, that he is banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White...

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Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

From elsewhere — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:25:29 +0000

The Guardian reports: Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned. As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy, Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration agenda. He is...

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Alligator Alcatraz’s tiny cages were probably even tinier

From elsewhere — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:25:13 +0000

The American Prospect reports: The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security released a scathing report last Friday about the shuttered Florida concentration camp built on an abandoned airstrip known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” concluding the camp failed to meet numerous health and safety standards, and that the use of “small metal enclosures” was “unprecedented” and posed “significant risks to detainee health and safety.” The report included photos, taken by OIG inspectors during an “unannounced” visit in...

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‘Doom loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft admit LLMs are destroying the web and are built on theft

From elsewhere — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:36:21 +0000

404 Media reports: Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” Those statements and a series of other mask-off...

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Trump’s Minnesota surge created ‘a grave threat to the rule of law,’ says federal court’s chief judge

From elsewhere — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:14:55 +0000

The New York Times reports: Judge Patrick J. Schiltz’s warning was stark. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had violated nearly 100 orders issued by Minnesota’s Federal District Court during the month of January, including some mandating the release of undocumented immigrants from detention. The violations needed to stop immediately. “ICE is not a law unto itself,” Judge Schiltz wrote in his Jan. 28 order. Judges around the country took notice, not only of the scale of the allegation but because such...

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Follow the money: Democrats demand to know where Venezuelan oil revenue is going

From elsewhere — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:14:06 +0000

The Washington Post reports: Three Democratic senators are pressing the Trump administration for transparency on billions of dollars in oil revenue from Venezuela believed to be in a U.S. government-controlled account. In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) are asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for information about the status and use of this revenue, which is being disbursed from an account...

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Deep in Trump country, a revolt against corporate money could reshape political spending

From elsewhere — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:44:40 +0000

Reuters reports: More than 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court reshaped American politics with its Citizens United campaign finance ruling, Montana voters will decide this November whether to make their state the first in the nation to bar corporations from spending money on elections through a ballot initiative. It’s a test case for a novel legal strategy that sidesteps the 2010 ruling rather than challenging it head-on — and taps into growing, bipartisan anger over the pervasiveness of so-called...

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