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Under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), American telecoms are required to maintain systems to surveil unencrypted conversations when required by court order.
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Kevin Collier, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
Recently, Customs and Border Protection was granted access to over 80,000 Flock cameras, which have also been used to surveil protests.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Many locals see them as a nuisance that take away jobs and surveil neighborhoods with their extensive array of cameras.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
The back-and-forth revolves around Anthropic's push to bar the military from using its AI model Claude to surveil Americans or power fully autonomous weapons.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
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Kevin Collier, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
Recently, Customs and Border Protection was granted access to over 80,000 Flock cameras, which have also been used to surveil protests.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Many locals see them as a nuisance that take away jobs and surveil neighborhoods with their extensive array of cameras.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
The back-and-forth revolves around Anthropic's push to bar the military from using its AI model Claude to surveil Americans or power fully autonomous weapons.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
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“Surveil.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surveil. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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