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Senator Josh Hawley is turning his attention to Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate cameras, raising questions about how millions of Americans are being tracked on public roads without their knowledge. The investigation asks whether these surveillance networks, now woven into hundreds of cities, have grown faster than the legal frameworks meant to govern them.
Shifting to Washington's crypto agenda, the SEC appears to be quietly reviving an effort to regulate how investment advisers store clients' digital assets. The two thousand twenty three version of this rule never made it across the finish line, and the new approach remains largely under wraps — but its return signals the agency isn't done trying to bring custody practices into tighter regulatory alignment.
And in Australia, the recording industry is drawing a line in the sand on artificial intelligence. The country's music charts will now be closed to songs that are substantially AI-generated, though tracks where humans remain the primary creative force can still qualify. It's a careful distinction, and one that other industries may soon find themselves forced to make as well.
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