Boiling frogs… (We can, therefore we must!)
More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints
… Law enforcement's talking points—often scripted by the company itself trumpet their role in solving high-stakes crimes. But the data reveals a different story. What they're not saying is that ALPRs are also frequently used for extremely low-level investigations, such as verifying whether a student lives within a particular school zone. In some cases, police have even used this tech to conduct employment background checks and investigations into loud music complaints. Recently, a motorcyclist was even targeted for simply holding a cell phone while riding.
The reach of this ALPR surveillance is amplified by the nature of the indiscriminate sharing these technologies encourage. Most agencies choose to share broadly, often as part of a nationwide pool, making it common for a single city's system to be searched hundreds of thousands of times each month. By analyzing these "network audit logs," privacy advocates and journalists have uncovered evidence of the technology being used to surveil protesters, abortion-seekers, immigrants, and even ethnic Roma populations.
Isn’t it obvious?
AI warfare is already here
Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon highlights the risks of autonomous warfare — but obscures just how close it is.
Making fake seem real. (Who do you sue?)
Fake academic journals are publishing AI-generated papers under real professors’ names
Online academic journals falsely attributed articles, likely written by AI, to several professors, who say the fiasco is a warning about the future of scientific knowledge.
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