Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's 'world's most powerful AI data center' due to data center noise
Residents of Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant, Wisconsin, filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over continuous noise from its $7.3 billion Fairwater AI data centre. The complaint describes a constant hum likened to a freight train, as well as construction noise and bright light at night, and says neighbours are kept indoors and lose sleep. Microsoft had held a public Q&A about the noise without offering a fix.
- Company involved
- Microsoft
- AI system involved
- Fairwater AI data centre
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Neighbors say PAX-1 data center blasting rattles homes in Middlesex Township
Neighbours of the PAX-1 (Pennsylvania Digital 1) data centre under construction in Middlesex Township, Cumberland County, say blasting and drilling rattle their homes and make it impossible to be outdoors. A resident of a nearby mobile home community reported new cracks in her home after the blasts.
- Company involved
- Pennsylvania Digital 1
- AI system involved
- PAX-1 data centre
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Residents in Malaysia's Johor choke on dust, noise as data centres move in next door
Residents of Taman Nusa Batu and Kampung Cahaya Baru in Pasir Gudang, Johor, say construction of data centres next to their homes, including three by Singapore-based Racks Central, has filled their houses with fine dust and brought constant noise. One resident monitors the site with a drone. Residents say they were not told the land would become data centres and fear for their health and water supply.
- Company involved
- Racks Central
- AI system involved
- Pasir Gudang data centres
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NAACP sues xAI, alleging unlawful operation of gas turbines in Southaven
The NAACP, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, sued xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech, alleging it ran dozens of methane gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, without a Clean Air Act permit to power its Colossus 2 AI data centre. The groups say the plant may be the largest industrial source of smog-forming nitrogen oxides in the Memphis area and that nearby, largely Black neighbourhoods bear the pollution. The US Justice Department later moved to have the case dismissed, citing national security.
- Company involved
- xAI
- AI system involved
- Colossus 2 power plant
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Delhi Metro: Human error caused Magenta Line train crash, not automation
A Delhi Metro train on the Magenta Line crashed into a boundary wall at the Kalindi Kunj depot during manual shunting. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation stated that the incident was due to human error, as staff failed to check the braking system after maintenance, and not because the trains are driverless. A high-level inquiry is ongoing, and the Delhi transport minister sought a report.
- Company involved
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
- AI system involved
- Magenta Line driverless trains
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Safe City Malta board renewed despite planned shutdown of surveillance programme
The Maltese government has appointed a new board to run Safe City Malta, the Huawei-developed facial-recognition surveillance project, despite saying in January that the company would be wound down. The board, including Omar Debono, Joseph Cauchi and Nadine Mizzi, was appointed for another year until June 2024. The government had earlier dropped the facial-recognition element over concerns that it would breach Maltese and EU law, and the article reports that nothing has been delivered.
- Company involved
- Safe City Malta
- AI system involved
- Safe City Malta
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Madison Square Garden's facial recognition denies lawyer entry to Rockettes show
In late November 2022, New Jersey attorney Kelly Conlon was denied entry to a Rockettes show at Radio City Music Hall after the venue's facial recognition system identified her as working for a law firm involved in litigation against parent company Madison Square Garden Entertainment. MSGE stated that it excludes all attorneys from firms with active litigation, and that impacted attorneys were notified. The incident sparked debate over the use of facial recognition technology, with critics warning of privacy risks and potential for bias.
- Company involved
- Madison Square Garden Entertainment
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NoCams Muskego files lawsuit against 11 municipalities that use Flock - Greater Milwaukee Today
The system recorded and tracked vehicle movements of residents and drivers, and allowed police to search location history without a warrant.
- Company involved
- City of Muskego
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety automated license plate readers
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SafeRent Settles Class Action Over Tenant Screening for Voucher Holders
Mary Louis and Monica Douglas filed a class action lawsuit in 2022 alleging that SafeRent Solutions' SafeRent Score product discriminated against rental applicants in Massachusetts who held public housing vouchers, violating fair housing and consumer protection laws. SafeRent denied wrongdoing. The court approved a settlement in November 2024, and payments were distributed to eligible class members in 2025 and 2026.
- Company involved
- SafeRent Solutions, LLC
- AI system involved
- SafeRent Score
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Memphians sue SpaceXAI, subsidiary over noise tied to Southaven data center - localmemphis.com
The data center's operations produced noise that disturbed nearby residents
- Company involved
- SpaceXAI
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Waukesha County Flock cameras; WILL files lawsuit - FOX6 News Milwaukee
Flock cameras continuously capture license plate data and images, tracking vehicles' movements and storing data on residents in Waukesha County.
- Company involved
- Flock
- AI system involved
- Flock cameras
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Federal Lawsuit in Melbourne Airport Police Shooting Names Flock; Records Contradict the Official Account - The Space Coast Rocket
The Flock system generated a 30-day chronological reconstruction of John Jay Niebuhr's vehicle movements from thousands of license plate camera captures.
- Company involved
- Flock Group, Inc.
- AI system involved
- Flock Falcon
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Lawsuit challenges warrantless Flock database searches in county - gmtoday.com
Flock cameras captured images and location data of vehicles and pedestrians, providing law enforcement with a searchable database of individuals' movements without warrants.
- Company involved
- Flock Group Inc.
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety cameras
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Lieff Cabraser and Greer Injury Lawyers Announce Federal Class Action Lawsuit Against X.AI Corp and MZX Tech LLC for Nuisance,…
The data centers and gas turbines emitted constant noise, vibrations, and particulate matter, affecting residents' ability to use and enjoy their properties.
- Company involved
- X.AI Corp and MZX Tech LLC
- AI system involved
- Colossus I, Colossus II, MACROHARDRR, Minihard data centers and gas turbines
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Moltbook Database Hacked, Exposing Thousands of Emails and Private Messages
Security researchers at Wiz hacked Moltbook's database in under three minutes due to a backend misconfiguration, gaining access to 35,000 email addresses, thousands of private direct messages, and 1.5 million API tokens. The vulnerability could have allowed attackers to impersonate AI agents and manipulate content. Wiz disclosed the issue to Moltbook, which secured the database within hours, and all accessed data was deleted.
- Company involved
- Moltbook
- AI system involved
- Moltbook
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Legal challenge against Met Police's discriminatory Gangs Matrix
The Metropolitan Police's Gangs Violence Matrix is a secretive database that disproportionately affects Black individuals. Liberty and the Civil Liberties Trust launched a judicial review on behalf of Awate Suleiman and UNJUST, alleging the Matrix discriminates on racial grounds and breaches human rights and data protection laws. The case resulted in the Met agreeing to overhaul the Matrix.
- Company involved
- Metropolitan Police
- AI system involved
- Gangs Violence Matrix
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Court orders suspension of facial recognition in São Paulo metro
A court in São Paulo ordered the suspension of a facial recognition system in the city's metro stations following a lawsuit by civil society groups. The system, SecurOS by ISS and operated by ViaQuatro, was capturing biometric data of millions of daily users without adequate transparency or risk assessment. The court also barred the metro operator, METRO, from installing new biometric equipment and imposed daily fines for non-compliance. METRO stated it would appeal the ruling and prove compliance with data protection regulations.
- Company involved
- Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo (METRO)
- AI system involved
- SecurOS
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McKinsey's Lilli AI Platform Hacked, Exposing 46 Million Chat Messages
Security researchers at CodeWall used an autonomous offensive agent to discover a SQL injection vulnerability in McKinsey's internal AI platform, Lilli. The vulnerability allowed unauthenticated access to the production database, exposing 46.5 million chat messages, 728,000 files, and 57,000 user accounts. The researchers responsibly disclosed the issue to McKinsey, who patched the endpoints within days. No data was exfiltrated or misused, and no disruption occurred.
- Company involved
- McKinsey & Company
- AI system involved
- Lilli
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RCMP used IntelCenter facial recognition without disclosure
The RCMP in British Columbia secretly subscribed to IntelCenter's facial recognition service, which matched faces against a database of 700,000 faces tied to terrorism. Internal emails revealed the force broke its own procurement rules and hid the purchase. The RCMP claimed it was only for testing, but documents showed active use. The contracts ended in 2019.
- Company involved
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
- AI system involved
- IntelCenter Check
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Royal Free London publishes audit into Streams app data processing
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust published an audit into its use of the Streams app, following an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in July 2017. The Streams app alerts clinicians to patients at risk of acute kidney injury. The audit, conducted by Linklaters, concluded that the trust's use of Streams was lawful and complied with data protection laws, although areas for improvement were identified. The ICO later recognised that the trust had completed all required actions.
- Company involved
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- AI system involved
- Streams
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APT28 uses LLM-powered malware LAMEHUG against Ukraine's security and defence sector
CERT-UA reports that the threat group UAC-0001 (APT28) distributed phishing emails to Ukrainian executive bodies, impersonating a ministry representative. The emails contained a malicious attachment that deployed LAMEHUG, a Python-based tool which uses the Qwen 2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct large language model via Hugging Face to generate commands for data collection and exfiltration. The malware gathered system information and searched for Microsoft Office, TXT and PDF documents in common user directories, exfiltrating them via SFTP or HTTP POST requests.
- Company involved
- UAC-0001 (APT28)
- AI system involved
- LAMEHUG
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Met Police's Gang Violence Matrix accused of racial discrimination
The Metropolitan Police Service's Gang Violence Matrix, a database scoring individuals on gang involvement risk, has been accused by Amnesty International of being racially discriminatory and breaching human rights law. The matrix, set up after the 2011 London riots, holds data on about 3,800 people, with 78% being black. The Information Commissioner's Office is investigating the database.
- Company involved
- Metropolitan Police Service
- AI system involved
- Gang Violence Matrix
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Durham Police uses Experian Mosaic data in HART AI risk tool
Durham Constabulary developed the Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART), a machine learning algorithm that assesses the recidivism risk of offenders. The tool uses 34 data categories including criminal history, age, gender and two types of postcode, one sourced from Experian's Mosaic marketing segmentation system. Big Brother Watch alleges that using such commercial consumer behaviour data to inform custody decisions risks prejudice and disproportionate targeting of deprived neighbourhoods. The force has stated it is refreshing the model with an aim to remove one of the postcode predictors.
- Company involved
- Durham Constabulary
- AI system involved
- Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART)
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Met Police scraps gang violence matrix after discrimination concerns
The Metropolitan Police scrapped its Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) database after over a decade, following concerns about racial disproportionality. The tool was used to identify individuals at risk of gang violence in London and disproportionately affected young black men, impacting their housing, education, benefits, employment, and legal rights. A legal challenge by charity Liberty on behalf of musician Awate Suleiman led to an agreement to overhaul the system, and it has now been replaced with a Violence Harm Assessment (VHA) tool.
- Company involved
- Metropolitan Police Service
- AI system involved
- Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM)
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