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Flock’s License Plates Readers Are a Post-Roe Privacy Nightmare

Long exposure photo shows traffic traveling along a highway, early Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Photo: Michael Probst (AP)Before an injustice becomes a reality, when the consequences are all very abstract, it can be easy to doubt and defer grasping how inevitable they are. Some people will write off what is plainly obvious to everyone around them as the misgivings of pearl-clutching doomsayers,the fallout of overactive imaginations. Thankfully, reality does wonders for perspective.There can be no silver lining to the

Sen. Ed Markey Presses Amazon on Ring Camera Audio Recordings

Amazon-owned Ring displays several products of their security line during the CES tech show Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, in Las Vegas.Photo: Ross D. Franklin (AP)Sen. Ed Markey on Tuesday said that his office plans to push forward with an already yearslong investigation into “harmful surveillance practices” and “invasive data collection” facilitated by Amazon’s flagship home security product, Ring. In a letter to Amazon CEO Andrew Jassey—the handpicked replacement of ex-CEO Jeff Bezos, who transitioned to executive chairman