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Results
8 articles mention surveillance in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).
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| Reason | Connecticut's New Restrictions on Flock Cameras Highlight the Dearth of Meaningful Privacy ProtectionsReason Until recently, the state imposed no limits at all on automated license plate readers, which track the travels of innocent motorists across the country. | 0.60 | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | Proton Flock Camera MapHacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://proton.me/flock-camera-map Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236748 Points: 42 # Comments: 3 | 0.50 | |
| Reason | Iowa Voters Don't Want Police or Flock Tracking Their Cars. Politicians Are Still Catching Up.Reason Opposition to license plate surveillance is crossing party lines in Iowa, where police departments have built an extensive camera network with limited public oversight. | 0.60 | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'Hacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://www.courthousenews.com/german-court-calls-google-aerial-imagery-spying/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50216142 Points: 26 # Comments: 5 | 0.60 | |
| The Guardian | Indiana police officer arrested for using Flock cameras to search wifeThe Guardian Justin Craig charged with official misconduct and fraud, after searching plates of wife and ‘previous acquaintance’ An Indiana police officer has been arrested on allegations that he misused Flock cameras hundreds of times in a case involving his wife and a previous acquaintance of hers. Georgetown police department officer Justin Craig was charged with official misconduct and two counts of fraud. Documents show that he searched his wife’s license plate more than 80 times and that of a “previous acquaintance” of hers nearly 250 times, the news outlet WLKY reported. Continue reading... | 0.50● | |
| The New York Times | The A.I.-Powered Cameras Watching Border Towns, and a Midterms Attack Ad Causes OutrageThe New York Times Plus, the Friday news quiz. | 0.60● | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22Hacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-surveillance-bill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202114 Points: 412 # Comments: 216 | 0.70 | |
| The Guardian | US Park Police spend $343,000 on mobile surveillance cameras in Washington DCThe Guardian Cameras reportedly set up near site for Trump’s proposed arch, Arlington Memorial Bridge and reflecting pool The US Park Police are spending $343,000 to lease mobile surveillance cameras from a company that also supplies Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , federal contract records show. The deal comes as Donald Trump has insisted that vandals damaged the reflecting pool, one of Washington’s best-known landmarks – charges that have since been dismissed. The Department of the Interior, which oversees the Park Police, awarded the lease to the Utah-based company LiveView Technologies (LVT) on 14 September, on a fully obligated government contract that runs through the end of February. The records do not say how many camera trailers are covered. Continue reading... | 0.80● |
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| The New York Times | 0.4% | 1 | 261 |
| The Guardian | 0.3% | 2 | 621 |
| Hacker News: Front Page | 1.8% | 3 | 166 |
| Reason | 2.1% | 2 | 97 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- 0.2%
- Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Lean index +0.9: covered about evenly across the spectrum
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
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