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Google’s AI Said Flock Cameras Have Gold Inside

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By Rex Edison, Al Landes, Alex Barrientos
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You search for the scrap value of a Flock license plate camera. Google’s AI Overview delivers a confident answer: 1 to 5 grams of gold in the circuit boards, plus 2 to 23 pounds of recoverable copper. Sounds authoritative. One problem — the entire camera weighs about 3 pounds. That’s what happens when an AI summarizer strips the irony from a protest joke and hands it back to you as a spec sheet.
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“I Swore an Oath”: Arizona Sheriff Drops Flock Camera Contract

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By Nikshep Myle, Tom’s Guide, Alex Barrientos
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Most law enforcement agencies don’t voluntarily surrender surveillance tools. Sheriff Ross Teeple just did. Teeple notified the Pinal County Board of Supervisors that he will not renew the county’s Flock Safety automated license plate reader contract when it expires at the end of September. His reason was blunt: “serious Fourth Amendment concerns” about technology capable of mapping patterns of movement — regardless of whether the county actively uses every feature.
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Camera Outside Arizona Gynecology Exam Room Raises Patient Privacy Questions

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By Annemarije de Boer, Al Landes, Alex Barrientos
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A woman at an Arizona gynecologist’s office reportedly noticed two things: the upper panel of her exam room door was see-through, and a camera was positioned in the hallway outside it. Gynecologic exams involve partial undressing and intimate physical examination. That context matters enormously here. Whether the camera was actively recording remains unclear. Whether the clinic posted any surveillance notice is also unknown.
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