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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 …

Sen. Josh Hawley is launching an investigation into Flock Safety’s sprawling network of license-plate cameras, demanding answers about who can access the personal data collected on millions of Americans as they drive around the country. Hawley, R-Mo., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, sent a letter …

Across the United States, police departments and other organizations are rapidly building networks of cameras that can record where vehicles travel, when they pass and what they look like. The technology, known as automated license plate recognition, is marketed as a powerful crime-fighting tool. But its rapid expansion is also …