Crime Radar Pulse

Columbus Mayor Ginther ordered an immediate halt to statewide Flock data sharing after an audit uncovered 15,577 possible immigration enforcement...

The Chatrie decision could affect law enforcement purchases of commercial location data from brokers, while experts say it strengthens Fourth Amendment challenges to warrantless ALPR collection due to its retrospective and indiscriminate nature.

Flock's rapid expansion without public votes has sparked DeFlock model legislation making unauthorized ALPR installs a felony with up to 10 years...

A Milwaukee internal affairs detective was charged with misconduct for misusing the Flock ALPR system to improperly search license plates 20 times and...

The old 'nothing to hide' line has flipped: now citizens must supply their own dashcam or Ring footage to disprove proximity-based accusations from...

Oregon's new data privacy law seeks to block public bodies from selling residents' personal information to data brokers, responding to immigration...

Connecticut's expanded CTDPA now classifies driver's license numbers and other government identifiers as sensitive data, requiring separate consent...

The FTC seeks public comment on a policy barring AI companies from distorting outputs for undisclosed ideological goals under Section 5 of the FTC...

New Mexico's Driver Privacy and Safety Act now restricts ALPR data sharing to cases with explicit city permission, barring third-party sales or...

Denying GPS access blocks only the official API, while IP geolocation, Wi-Fi scanning, and embedded SDKs continue harvesting location data without any...

The Chatrie ruling bars police from forcing Google to hand over geofence location data without individualized probable cause, yet explicitly leaves...

Switch every app to while using location permission instead of always to cut off the background data stream that powers data brokers. FTC enforcement...

Coachella Mayor Frank Figueroa has reversed his previous support for Flock cameras, citing residents' fears of surveillance amid immigration...

FTC, Alaska, Iowa, and Nebraska file a complaint seeking permanent injunction and other relief.

A Minnesota man filed a defamation lawsuit against CrimeRadar after the app falsely linked him to a sex crime. The case spotlights concrete liability risks from the platform's accuracy failures.

A Park Rapids man plans legal action against CrimeRadar after the app wrongly tagged him as involved in a child sex crime based on a misinterpreted...

A Minnesota man has accused CrimeRadar of defamation after the app falsely tied him to a sex crime, directly exposing accuracy failures and potential legal liability for the platform.

California's budget standoff blocks $55M for DMV to share driver data—including from over 1M AB 60 immigrant license holders—with the national...

A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses Motorola Solutions of improperly sharing California ALPR data with federal and out-of-state agencies, directly...