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Texas city demands $2.3M for public records on AI surveillance system

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A Texas city, North Richland Hills, has demanded an exorbitant fee of $2.3 million to fulfill a public records request concerning its use of Flock AI surveillance systems. City officials claim that searching through approximately one terabyte of data related to the system's errors, misuse, and effectiveness would take 14 years of labor. This demand comes amid growing bipartisan backlash against AI-powered surveillance technologies like Flock, which track vehicles. AI

IMPACT This incident highlights potential barriers to public oversight of AI surveillance technologies and may influence how other municipalities handle similar requests.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses a city's response to a public records request about an AI surveillance product, which falls under tool-related news rather than a core AI release or significant industry event.

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Texas city demands $2.3M for public records on AI surveillance system

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As bipartisan backlash against Flock gr

    📰 Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees -- in... 📰 Source: Sla…

    LINKS news.slashdot.org/…/texas-city-demands-2-…
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # Texas city demands $2M for # publicrecords on # Flock usage As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and

    # Texas city demands $2M for # publicrecords on # Flock usage As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees—including charging tens of thousands or even millions—to get information about ho…

    LINKS arstechnica.com/…/texas-city-demands-2m-f…

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