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Always Watching: Congress Begins Investigating Flock Cameras

Virginia Grace McKinnon

As Americans grow increasingly concerned about the privately-owned surveillance cameras, powered by artificial intelligence, spreading across the country by the thousands, senators are investigating whether they want to act. While the cameras were initially meant to provide safety, there are concerns from both parties that surveillance has surpassed safety.

“This hearing is about a simple thing. It’s trying to get to the bottom of what is going on with the expanding surveillance network that appears to be going coast-to-coast in this country,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, said.

“I have in mind the hundreds of thousands of individual cameras all linked to the cloud, all powered by AI that seem to be spreading all across the country,” Hawley said, opening the subcommittee’s Wednesday hearing.

“The question is where are all of these images going? Who’s using them? What are the privacy protections for them? How do we make sure that this kind of surveillance is consistent with the Constitution of the United States?” he continued.

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