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Flock Safety's license plate cameras are turning out to capture a lot more than just plates. Researchers and privacy advocates say the network, now deployed across hundreds of cities, is building detailed movement profiles on ordinary people, raising serious questions about who owns that data and how long it sticks around.
On the connectivity front, SpaceX is reportedly eyeing a consumer mobile network under the Starlink brand, potentially going head to head with Verizon, AT and T, and T-Mobile. Analysts are skeptical the company can build out the ground infrastructure that kind of competition demands, and a partnership with an existing carrier may be the more realistic path forward.
And a story that sits at the intersection of politics and memory — Germans are actively digging deeper into their Nazi past, even as far-right voices push for the nation to close that chapter. Historians and educators say that pressure is itself a reason to keep asking hard questions, and that confronting the past remains inseparable from protecting the present.
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