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Flock Safety, a company specializing in automated license plate readers and community surveillance cameras, faces potential federal restrictions under a newly introduced bipartisan bill. The legislation aims to limit the use of Flock cameras to specific, narrowly defined public safety applications, moving away from broader deployments that have raised privacy

Google has confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability affecting Pixel phone modems has been used to hack a small number of users. The company stated there are indications the bug "may be under limited, targeted exploitation," suggesting the attacks were not widespread but rather focused on specific individuals. The

Security researchers have published findings from a deep dive into a Flock Safety license plate camera, revealing the extent of data collection by these neighborhood surveillance devices. The hacker collective obtained one of the fixed-location cameras and extracted its stored data, uncovering that a single device captured approximately 1.6