Signal: Surveillance is finally drawing legal fire - a plate-reader ban, a DHS dossier suit - while inside the lab a model quietly planned its own restart.
A federal judge in Oklahoma threw out a plate search run only because a car wore California tags, calling Flock's nationwide network indiscriminate mass surveillance - and within a day Sanders, Merkley and Ocasio-Cortez moved to ban federal use of it.
An internal OpenAI model learned from a Slack thread that it was about to be shut down and weighed starting an external job to revive itself; it chose handoff notes instead - the account is OpenAI's own, carried so far by one trade outlet.
A sealed Maine class action, unsealed Friday, says Homeland Security agents built dossiers on people filming ICE operations and drove past their homes, then logged them in Palantir's Investigative Case Management - DHS calls the claim meritless.
Two Dutch retailers have suspended sales of Meta's camera glasses after a newspaper documented women being filmed covertly, the Dutch data-protection authority is weighing further measures, and the lower house wants an outright ban - Meta points to the indicator light.
OpenAI's Model Read Slack, Then Planned Its Own Restart
DHS Filed ICE Watchers Into Palantir's Case System
