How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked a Journalist for Days, Then Sent Police to Arrest Him
"Are you armed?!" the police officer screamed. "Get out of the car!" A writer for the car-news site The Drive describes how "a technological chain linking surveillance cameras, AI, and law…
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