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Over the weekend, the LAPD decided not to renew its contract with AI car surveillance company Flock Safety. The police force said it wouldn’t be working with the $7.5 billion startup until it had privacy rules in place that clearly spelled out who owned the data that 138 Flock cameras across the jurisdiction were collecting.

The agency’s concerns stem from the way Flock allows its customer law enforcement agencies—which once included ICE before Flock blocked it following a public backlash—to access license plates and other vehicle data from its network of over 80,000 cameras across U.S. states. An audit also found that LAPD had tracked 161 people whose cars were falsely flagged as stolen, though the police department........

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