Police will soon be able to use Flock Safety’s AI-powered cameras for surveillance, and privacy experts are concerned.

The $7.5 billion car surveillance company already has a network of tens of thousands of smart license plate readers, and starting this fall, cops will be able to use them as more traditional surveillance cameras, requesting live feeds or clips from the time when a vehicle passes through its field of vision.

Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley told Forbes that the update should give police more “situational awareness,” but civil liberties experts have worried for years about the company’s expansion. Jay Stanley, technology director at the ACLU, worries Flock “is trying to build a nationwide authoritarian surveillance system.”

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In a new lawsuit, Reddit accused AI startup Anthropic of training its models on Reddit users’ personal data without permission, even after telling the social media company it would stop doing so. Several AI firms have aimed to use Reddit’s forums to train models, and the company has struck deals with OpenAI and Google.

President Donald Trump issued a travel ban barring people in 12 countries—primarily from the Middle East and Africa—from visiting the U.S. The proclamation cites visa overstay rates for most of the impacted countries and cites terrorism concerns with Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Cuba and others. The order includes a number of exceptions to the travel ban, including lawful permanent U.S. residents, diplomats, athletes and more.

Private sector hiring grew at its slowest pace in over two years, a new report from payroll processor firm ADP shows, leading President Donald Trump to again push for the politically independent Federal Reserve to slash interest rates. A report from the Labor Department this Friday will offer a key window into the employment picture, with economists expecting unemployment to rise to 4.5%, a rate not seen since October 2021 as the economy recovered from the........

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