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London police deployed live facial recognition technology at a protest for the first time, marking a significant shift in how surveillance intersects with public assembly. Civil liberties groups are already pushing back, calling it a chilling precedent for the right to gather without being identified.
That tension between watching and being watched carries into our next story. A startup called Scribe is recording employees as they work, capturing screen activity and workflows to feed AI training models. The pitch is efficiency, but workers and privacy advocates are asking a familiar question: who owns the data that comes from your labor?
And developer Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, made waves with a blunt observation on social media, suggesting that entire companies are now operating under what he called AI psychosis, making decisions driven more by AI hype than by sound judgment. With forty-five upvotes and growing discussion on Hacker News, it clearly struck a nerve among builders who are watching the cycle play out in real time.
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