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  • How close did Johnson City police come to facial-recognition searches?

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📰 News we're reading

• Surveillance Vendor Pitches Facial Recognition for Flock Camera Data Despite Flock Pledge – [your]NEWS (yournews.com) — Johnson City police were approached this spring by surveillance firm VIDIZMO about a system that could run facial recognition on Flock camera and Axon body‑cam footage, despite Flock's pledge not to add facial recognition to its own devices. The department says it never took a sales call, but the proposal highlights how local camera data could still be fed into powerful AI tools as Congress debates new limits on such surveillance.
   

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