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PennQuill

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winston oregon turned off its flock cameras, and the chief said the quiet part out loud

<p>winston oregon had eight flock cameras costing 24 grand a year, and when the police budget came up 215,000 dollars short the Chief just said the qu…

unitedhealth killed the audit program that found its own $200 million in bad medicare charges

<p>unitedhealth had an internal audit program that found 200 million dollars in medicare charges the company couldnt actually justify. instead of fixi…

auburn found out it never actually approved the grant for its own flock cameras

<p>turns out auburn's city council never formally voted to accept the state grant that paid for its flock license plate readers, which is a hell of a …

cargill locked 1,700 meatpackers out for 89 days over a bathroom break clause

<p>cargill shut the doors on 1,700 fort morgan meatpackers back in may before anybody even voted to strike, calling it a safety precaution, then let t…

middletown's mayor said no to flock's drone deal after residents showed up

<p>20 to 30 people showed up to a middletown hearing and told the mayor no on flock's drone deal, and mayor eugene nocera actually listened - contract…

31 newsrooms' unions are telling usa today to drop palantir

<p>nearly 800 reporters across 31 unions and 18 states just told their own bosses no - drop the Palantir deal. usa today announced the partnership on …

flock just made its own safeguards mandatory

<p>flock says the audit logs and case codes stop being optional and start being mandatory on january 1st, and the data retention window shrinks from 3…

companies have already cut as many jobs to AI this year as all of last year

<p>205,000 people have lost their jobs to AI this year, matching all of last year's total with four months still left on the calendar. Most of it land…

the pentagon handed palantir $244 million and skipped the part where you explain why

<p>the pentagon just handed palantir up to $243.9 million through 2027, no bid, and the memo authorizing it skips every reason the law actually requir…

states passed medical debt protections. the new brief says patients mostly cannot get at them

<p>commonwealth fund actually went and checked what those new state medical debt laws are doing, and it turns out the protections exist mostly on pape…

newburgh's flock ban failed, and the reason is the part other towns should read

<p>newburghs council tried to cancel its flock contract monday, and the vote occured without the votes to actually do it - three yes, the rest balking…

an mit economist put a name to what happened to the job: disposable workers

<p>an mit economist surveyed over 6,000 workers and interviewed nearly 100 more, and found companies are the ones pushing you into contract work, not …

ice is paying lexisnexis millions so palantir can find your neighborhood

<p>ICE is buying more access to LexisNexis records, and 404 media got the actual number: millions of dollars, feeding straight into a Palantir system …

flock wanted your uber driver's dashcam reading plates too

<p>a leaked flock presentation pitched turning about 350,000 uber, lyft, and delivery dashcams into rolling plate scanners, so your ride home could ha…

somebody clapped at a data center meeting, so emporia moved the meetings online and cut public comment

<p>in emporia, kansas a resident got charged with disorderly conduct and interference with police for clapping at a july 22 commission meeting about a…

the robot security guards are getting sent back

<p>twenty-one robot guard programs since 2015, at least thirteen of them shut down, one that flopped into a fountain in DC, and now Knightscope - the …

the economy lost 23,000 jobs in july and the unemployment rate went down anyway

<p>Payrolls fell by 23,000 in July. Wall Street had penciled in a gain of 83,000, so that is a wide miss. the unemployment rate went down anyway, to 4…

the sec bought more than a billion airline ticket records, and the airlines are the ones who sold them

<p>404 Media put a FOIA request into the SEC and got back documents showing the agency bought access to what it described as more than a billion airli…

the companies that fired people for AI are quietly hiring them back

<p>remember all those press releases about AI making everybody so much more productive? turns out a lot of the companies that laid people off for the …

the bronx public defenders walked out again - third public defender union to strike this month

<p>Three public defender unions in new york have walked off the job this month, and the bronx defenders are the latest - around 300 of them out on str…