Flock Safety's police AI looks for drivers based on patterns rather than known plates, ClarityCheck leaves millions of face images unsecured, and Zelda Williams reopens her father's Instagram account to fight AI abuse.
Flock Safety's OS Investigate system ships with 45 tools and 69 prewritten prompts to search license plates, 911 logs, and identity databases. Of the prewritten prompts, 19 hunt for patterns rather than look up a specific license plate or identity. One ranks vehicles seen at the same cameras as a target plate at least three times within a two-minute window. Flock states it is testing the product with a small group of law enforcement partners.[1]
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered that people-search site ClarityCheck left an Amazon S3 bucket unsecured, exposing millions of image files of faces. The exposed data also included email addresses and phone numbers. ClarityCheck restricted access after the disclosure but argued the data was not truly exposed because the URL was unindexed, despite being reachable in the company's publicly available website code.[2]
Zelda, Zak and Cody Williams have taken over their father's Instagram account to establish a trusted space for authentic memories. Zelda Williams explicitly stated the purpose is pushing back against what she calls rampant AI abuse of his voice and likeness. This follows her earlier pleas for people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father, criticizing the reduction of real people to synthetic approximations.[3]
