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Andrew Couts
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Some really crazy cases in here
- cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times
- cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason
- cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired
Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people
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There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
Absolute banger of an investigation by @mayakaufman.bsky.social and her co-reporters here!
Stay safe out there.
Update: In March, MN sued DOJ to get info about the Renee Good, Alex Pretti, & Julio Sosa-Celis shootings. Case paused awaiting DOJ's 6/4 responses to MN's administrative letters seeking that info. Hennepin Co (MN) says DOJ responses were still "obstructi[ve]." Will file amended complaint 6/18.
NEW: The ACLU is suing two police departments in Florida after an incorrect face recognition match led to the wrongful arrest of a Fort Myers man. @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/wrongf...
EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?
theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...
New: Anthropic releases new "safe" and unsafe AI models. Maxwell Zeff and @lhn.bsky.social report www.wired.com/story/anthro...
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.
Great work on this by @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social - just further proves the original story had legs and was accurate.
“What the UK government wants instead is invisible surveillance infrastructure, switched on by default and potentially rushed into law under cynical pretexts”
Andrew Couts
Nick Turse
Context for Belfast riots
INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
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The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
New @themarshallproject.org @ms.now report shows since Trump returned to office, ICE has taken a total of more than 500 babies and toddlers into custody: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/09/b...
Zach Edwards
Young children in detention stopped eating, began hitting themselves and became ill, according to parents.
NEW: On Thursday, @wired.com reported that Meta had quietly added code for a face recognition system to Meta AI, its smart glasses companion app. On Friday, code for the face rec system was removed. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
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The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
