Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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308 incidents closest to “Accurint for Law Enforcement” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The system allowed unauthorized tracking of individuals' vehicles through license plate recognition, affecting five subjects including an ex-girlfriend who was searched 3,000 times.
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Former officer used Flock cameras to surveil and stalk his ex-girlfriend, her family members, and other romantic interests.
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The Flock ALPR system was used by deputies to track the locations of a woman and a teenage girl for personal, non-law-enforcement purposes.
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The system recommended rent prices to landlords, affecting renters' housing costs.
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The Flock camera system collected and stored license plate data, and a former deputy allegedly accessed it without authorization.
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The system tracked vehicle locations, enabling the deputy to stalk and intimidate family members, his wife, former girlfriends, and others.
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The system identified Angela Lipps as a suspect in a bank fraud case, leading to her arrest.
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Police officers conducted unauthorized searches on individuals' license plate data.
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The system incorrectly linked Lindsey Isaacs's vehicle to a fatal crash scene, leading to her wrongful arrest and 13-day detention.
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An officer conducted an unauthorized search of the Flock Safety automatic license plate reader system without a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
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Police falsely arrested an innocent man due to a facial recognition misidentification
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Identified Christopher Gatlin as a suspect in an assault, leading to his arrest and 17 months in jail.
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A sheriff's deputy pulled a month of a woman's location history from a networked license-plate-reader database without a warrant.
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The system allowed unauthorized searches of license plate data, affecting individuals whose plates were queried.
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Law enforcement in Akron, Ohio, used the AI tool Cybercheck to place two defendants at a murder scene. Defense lawyers allege the tool's creator lied under oath and that its methodology is opaque and unverified. Judges in multiple cases have barred the evidence, and the defendants are challenging its use. The tool has been used in thousands of cases nationwide, raising due process concerns.
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The system collected license plate data on vehicles, and the sergeant accessed it without a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
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The Flock camera system captured license plate data of individuals.
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The system tracked the location of the boyfriend's ex-wife.
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The AI generated false legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court.
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A child protection worker at the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) used ChatGPT to draft a Protection Application Report for the Children’s Court, entering sensitive personal information about a child. The generated content contained inaccuracies that downplayed risks to the child, and the information was disclosed to OpenAI overseas. An investigation by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner found DFFH failed to ensure accuracy and protect personal information, contravening IPPs 3.1 and 4.1. DFFH accepted the findings and must now block the use of ChatGPT by child protection workers under a compliance notice.
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Hoodline, an AI-powered local news site owned by Impress3, published an article falsely stating that the San Mateo County District Attorney had been charged with murder. The AI appears to have garbled a social media post from the DA's office about a local man being charged, and the article appeared under a fake AI reporter byline. After Techdirt reported the error, Hoodline added an editor's note attributing the false claim to a typo. The piece was also surfaced in Google News.
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Law enforcement agencies in Minnesota, under Operation Safety Net, secretly monitored protesters and journalists using facial recognition, social media scanning, and cell phone tracking after George Floyd's murder. The operation, which cost tens of millions of dollars, targeted individuals not suspected of any crime and persisted beyond the trial of Derek Chauvin. A class action lawsuit by the ACLU against the Minnesota State Patrol over journalist arrests was settled for $825,000. The US Department of Justice is investigating the Minneapolis Police Department for possible excessive force.
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Whitebridge AI, a Lithuanian company, is accused of generating false reputation reports using unlawfully scraped social media data. The reports contained false warnings for 'sexual nudity' and 'dangerous political content'. Privacy group Noyb filed a complaint with the Lithuanian data protection authority, alleging violations of the GDPR. The complainants sought access to their data but received no response, and were later required to provide a qualified electronic signature to correct errors.
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Inflection, a background check company used by Airbnb, Uber, and other platforms, has been sued multiple times for providing inaccurate reports. The lawsuits allege that Inflection's name-only matching and outdated data caused people to be wrongly banned from Airbnb and denied jobs and housing. Some cases have been settled, while others remain ongoing. The company is accused of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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