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‘Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI’: How Universities Bend Over Backwards to Accommodate Food Delivery Robots
Internal emails show how universities make nonsentient, profit-seeking Starship robots feel comfortable on campus.
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The Navy Bought ‘Global’ Surveillance Data Through Adtech Company Owned by Military Contractor
nContext looks like an ordinary adtech or marketing company. It's actually owned by military contracting giant Sierra Nevada Corporation.
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Here's the Video For Our Second FOIA Forum: AI Surveillance and Pickleball
Our second FOIA Forum tackled the serious stuff: surveillance and, uhh, pickleball!
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'FYI Pickleball DRAMA': Local Governments Overwhelmed By Tennis-Pickleball Turf Wars, Documents Show
What I learned about the pickleball lobby and pickleball turf wars by reading thousands of pages of documents from inside local government.
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Our Second FOIA Forum! 11/30, 1PM EST
We are hosting our second FOIA Forum at the end of November. Join the livestream, file FOIAs with us, get tips, and more.
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CBP Is Testing Palmer Luckey's AI-Powered Surveillance Towers in the Great Lakes
Documents obtained by 404 Media show an expansion of Anduril's surveillance technology on the U.S.-Canada border.
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Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians
'Not ideal:' NHTSA is learning about driverless car incidents from Reddit videos because its safety incident reporting form is deeply flawed, internal emails show.
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AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They're Everywhere
Hundreds of documents obtained by 404 Media show how Fusus, a system for linking a town’s security cameras into one central hub and adding AI to them, has spread across the country.
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Inside ICE’s Database for Finding ‘Derogatory’ Online Speech
Thumbs up, or thumbs down: that's the option presented to analysts when the tool Giant Oak Search Technology surfaces content from social media and other sources for ICE to scrutinize.
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Video Reveals Crucial Details of LAPD Ignoring Robbery to Catch Togetic in Pokémon Go
'The guys are going to be so jealous': Video reveals cops ignored robbery, blew a stop sign, sped over speed bumps on residential streets, and pulled an illegal u-turn, but were able to capture two very powerful Pokémon.
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Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.
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U.S. Counterintel Buys Access to the Backbone of the Internet to Hunt Foreign Hackers
Getting information from the NSA would take too long, according to internal documents from a counterintelligence agency. So it turned to Team Cymru to buy netflow data that can allow analysts to track activity through virtual private networks.