Flock surveillance cameras raise constitutional questions, bipartisan US senators say
U.S. senators expressed concerns during a Judiciary Committee hearing that Flock Safety's AI surveillance cameras may violate constitutional privacy rights. Subcommittee chair Josh Hawley led the discussion to investigate the growing network's impact. The bipartisan hearing examined the legal implications of widespread automated license plate recognition technology.
WASHINGTON — A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing. GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, the chair of the Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, said the point of the hearing was to find out “what is […]
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