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Flock Safety, the private AI-powered security camera company installing surveillance technology around the U.S., announced new security measures amid intensifying backlash and reports of law enforcement abuse.  In response to public backlash to the ever-growing network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), the company is working on reforms that “includes enhanced privacy protections, strengthening of control for local law enforcement offices, and enhanced accountability measures,” Fox Business reported Thursday.  “To start, Flock is reducing its standard data retention window from 30 days to seven. Previously, all data captured by one of the company’s more than 119,000 cameras nationwide was deleted…

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham thinks it is a “point of principle” that the effects of mass migration be spread to rural and middle-class areas, as critics wake up to the potential social consequences of planting “asylum seekers” around the country. Downing Street has made clear the Prime Minister has again doubled down on his ill-received policy pronouncement that it is time to get newly arrived boat migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees out of the working-class urban areas into which they have so far been decanted to spread them around the country, and particularly into middle-class regions. This is a…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) said that she doesn’t know why Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is campaigning with Hasan Piker, who she thinks deserves to be condemned. She also said of Piker, “I don’t think he’s a part of the Democratic Party.” Host Elizabeth Vargas asked, “Why is Dr. Sayed campaigning with someone like Hasan Piker? Shouldn’t he distance himself from that?” Stevens responded, “Well, I don’t know why. You should ask him.” Stevens added, “I believe he should be condemned. I do. I said that…on Election Day, I said that. ……

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has vowed to defy Washington and maintain its occupation of Lebanese territory The US State Department reportedly ordered Israel to stick to its word and pull its troops out of Lebanon after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said his forces were “here to stay” in the south of the country.Under a US-brokered framework signed on June 26, Israel agreed to leave the territory it currently occupies in Southern Lebanon in exchange for the Lebanese government disarming Hezbollah and establishing its own military as the sole armed group in Lebanon. During a visit to the occupied territory on…

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke – Wiki Commons Fincke flew four space missions, having spent 549 days in space. Experienced NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is leaving the space agency. Fincke ranks fourth among NASA astronauts in accumulated time in space (549 days), and his nine spacewalks added to a total of 48 hours and 37 minutes outside the Space Station. His departure from NASA comes seven months after he experienced a medical emergency aboard the International Space Station, an incident that triggered a premature end to the SpaceX Crew-11 mission, and the first medical evacuation from space. .@NASA astronaut Mike Fincke…

A taxpayer-funded swimming pool in Berlin, originally pitched as a multicultural, open-to-all space, almost immediately announced segregated, black-only swim sessions. The temporary “Volksbühne” (People’s Pool) project set up outside the famed Volksbühne theatre in Berlin has caused backlash just days after opening on August 7th. The summer swimming facility was initially pitched as a welcoming space that would be “open to everyone who longs to cool off in the hotter Berlin summer”. The organisers specifically contrasted their “people’s pool” with others in Germany, which have begun to require ID for entry following numerous instances of poor behaviour, including sexual assaults…

A majority of idiots in Gen Z have moved money out of investments and into a sports betting account. Twenty-six percent of Gen Z say “they treat sports betting as a deliberate, ongoing component of their financial plans,” according to a Bloomberg report. That 26 percent compares to 14 percent of Millennials, just six percent of Generation X, and one percent of Boomers. “Sports betting is increasingly competing with traditional investing for younger Americans’ attention,” adds Bloomberg, “with more than a quarter of Gen Z investors saying they see gambling on sports as part of their long-term financial strategy.” Gambling…

Four members of the terrorist organization known as Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) are facing federal charges in the United States in connection with the purchase of RPGs, machine guns, mortars, and other weapons from the Czech Republic, as well as the production and smuggling of drugs into the United States. This week, four men from CJNG went before a U.S. federal judge in Florida, where they had their first appearance in connection with a series of charges detailed in a criminal indictment. The four men, who are from Mexico, had been originally arrested in the Czech Republic and extradited…

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) launched an investigation Wednesday into Roblox’s handling of child safety on its online gaming platform. “Roblox appears to prioritize revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children, and the alleged criminal activity on Roblox warrants congressional scrutiny,” Hawley and Durbin, the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, wrote in a letter obtained by POLITICO. “Roblox is built on the foundation of safety. We do not compromise on that commitment,” Matt Kaufman, Roblox’s chief safety officer, said in a statement. “We look…

The American journalist has faced accusations of anti-Semitism over his criticism of Israel and of racism over his stance on immigration American journalist Tucker Carlson has told RT that he is not afraid of being killed for using his platform to say what he believes is true.The former Fox News host has adopted a staunch non-interventionist stance toward US involvement in foreign conflicts in recent years, breaking sharply with President Donald Trump on key foreign policy issues such as Washington’s war on Iran and support for Israel. Since leaving the news network, Carlson’s podcast has routinely garnered millions of views…