Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's "collection, retention, and dissemination of the data" from its AI-powered surveillance cameras
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AI-powered physical surveillance is hitting the same regulatory wall as social media data collection — once Congress starts asking about retention and dissemination at 120,000-camera scale, the compliance bar goes up for everyone. If your product logs location or biometric-adjacent data, assume discovery-level scrutiny on how long you keep it and who touches it.
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