#civilliberties

LAPD allowed its Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader contract to expire on July 11 after false alerts led to innocent drivers being stopped - a rare rollback of already-deployed AI surveillance on civil-liberties grounds.

Facewatch will let UK shop cameras alert police in seconds, escalating a retail theft tool into a real-time surveillance fight.

The Institute for Justice's analysis, published in late April and the subject of a 263-point Hacker News thread on May 1, identifies fourteen documented cases of US police officers using automated…