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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44 incidents closest to “TASER 10” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The officer allegedly tracked individuals using the Flock camera system without a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
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The system flagged a man's license plate as stolen, causing police to stop him at gunpoint.
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Automated license plate readers tracked vehicle locations and movements of individuals, including romantic partners, and officers queried the data for personal reasons.
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A student at Marana High School in Arizona typed a joke threat in an unsent email draft on a school-issued laptop while at home with his mother. AI monitoring software flagged the message, and the Marana Unified School District suspended him for 45 days under its zero-tolerance policy. The family is now suing, alleging the punishment violated the student's rights, as the message was never sent and posed no actual threat. The case raises questions about AI surveillance in schools and the criminalization of careless speech.
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The investigation into a Tesla Autopilot accident has been completed. The results reveal that a misjudgment by the self-driving system triggered a multi-vehicle pile-up.
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The Flock camera system was used to track and monitor a female officer's vehicle movements without her knowledge.
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Used Flock ALPR to track a woman's vehicle location without her knowledge, enabling the officer to stalk her.
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The Flock system generated a 30-day chronological reconstruction of John Jay Niebuhr's vehicle movements from thousands of license plate camera captures.
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A prospective university student in Isparta, Turkey, was arrested for using a custom AI device to cheat on the TYT entrance exam. The device included a button camera and a hidden modem to scan questions and receive answers via an earpiece. Police also detained an assistant. The student is jailed pending trial.
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The system incorrectly identified a vehicle as stolen, leading to a traffic stop and detention of the driver at gunpoint.
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Sarasota police officer Cory Waiters tracked a specific vehicle 355 times over five months using the Flock ALPR network and the state DAVID system, stalking the vehicle's owner.
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The Flock camera system alerted police that Amber Newell's vehicle was associated with a homicide investigation, leading to a gunpoint stop.
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The Flock camera system tracked the ex-girlfriend's vehicle license plate over 1,000 times, enabling the officer to stalk and harass her.
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Between October 2017 and July 2018, a Chicago police analyst tracked ShotSpotter's accuracy in the 10th district and found it correctly detected only 63 of 135 shootings where a person was struck, a 47% rate. The analyst shared the findings with CPD and ShotSpotter, and the company installed additional sensors, but accuracy remained below 50%. Despite this, the city signed a $33 million contract extension. SoundThinking says the system meets performance guarantees and has helped locate hundreds of victims.
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Evolv, a company selling AI-powered weapons detection systems, has been ordered by the FTC to stop making misleading claims about its Evolv Express product. The FTC alleged that the technology is essentially a metal detector with unproven AI, and that Evolv falsely claimed it could detect guns while ignoring harmless items. A pilot in New York City subways resulted in over 100 false positives and no guns detected. The settlement requires Evolv to allow educational customers to cancel their contracts and prohibits further misrepresentations.
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An audit by the New York City Comptroller found that ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system used by the NYPD, is overwhelmingly inaccurate. Only 13 percent of alerts in June 2023 corresponded to confirmed shootings, and the system missed over 200 real gunfire incidents in Manhattan in 2022. The NYPD has spent more than $45 million on the system since 2015. The comptroller advised against renewing the contract until the system can be fully evaluated.
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A student at Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland, was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI gun detection system misidentified his bag of Doritos as a firearm. The system, used by Baltimore County high schools, alerted law enforcement, leading officers to approach Taki Allen with guns drawn. Allen was detained and searched but no weapon was found. The school acknowledged the incident and offered counseling to affected students.
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Transgender and gender nonconforming travellers in the US allege that Transportation Security Administration full-body scanners, which require officers to select a binary gender, routinely flag their bodies as anomalies, leading to humiliating and invasive pat-downs. Travellers including Olivia, Terra Fox and Allister McGuire describe being pressured to expose their genitals or strip in private rooms after alarms, with one woman saying she was forced to show her penis to female officers who then cleared her. The TSA says it is committed to treating all travellers equally and has introduced new transgender awareness training, but internal complaint data shows a disproportionate number of civil rights complaints relate to screening of transgender people. ProPublica’s review of 174 traveller accounts found that most did not file a formal complaint, often from fear of outing themselves or not knowing how.
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Lockport City School District deployed SN Technologies' AEGIS face and weapons detection system in January 2020. Parents and the New York Civil Liberties Union allege the system misidentifies Black people more often than white people and falsely detects weapons such as broom handles. A lawsuit was filed against the New York State Education Department seeking to ban facial recognition in schools. SN Technologies denied misleading the district.
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An AI-powered surveillance system at a Seminole County middle school in Florida falsely identified a clarinet as a gun, triggering a lockdown and police response. The system detected a person in camouflage holding what it classified as a shouldered rifle, but it was actually a musical instrument. The incident highlights concerns about the reliability of AI gun detection in schools. No injuries were reported.
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ShotSpotter, a gunshot-detection technology company, was held in contempt of court after refusing to release documents about how it assesses gunshot alerts. The case stems from a November 2021 DUI arrest in Chicago, where the defence alleges the police pulled the driver over solely based on a ShotSpotter alert. Rather than comply with a subpoena from the Cook County Public Defender Office, ShotSpotter's attorney requested the contempt order to enable an appeal. The defence sought materials on analyst qualifications, alert reclassifications, and sensor accuracy data.
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Unauthorized access to license plate data of ex-girlfriend and four other individuals
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Researchers from McAfee Labs demonstrated that a two-inch piece of black electrical tape stuck on a 35 mph speed limit sign can cause the Traffic Aware Cruise Control in older Tesla Model S and X vehicles to misread the sign as 85 mph and automatically accelerate. The vulnerability affects vehicles using the MobilEye EyeQ3 camera system (Hardware Pack 1). The driver can override by braking. Tesla and MobilEye were informed but did not commit to fixing the issue.
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Titus Henderson, a prisoner, filed a civil rights lawsuit against COMPAS and other defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on July 16, 2018. The lawsuit alleges discrimination related to the use of the COMPAS risk assessment tool. The case is ongoing.
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