Ai-Surveillance

Ring partners with Flock Safety and Axon, reversing privacy commitments and expanding police surveillance

| Importance: 9/10

Amazon’s Ring announced partnerships with both Flock Safety and Axon, marking a dramatic reversal of its January 2024 commitment to limit police access to user footage. The partnerships enable law enforcement agencies to request Ring doorbell camera footage through third-party platforms …

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In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing

| Importance: 7/10

In early April 2025, In-Q-Tel announced its 800th investment since the CIA venture capital arm’s founding in 1999, marking a major expansion of intelligence community financial entanglement with private technology companies. The milestone investment came as In-Q-Tel broadened its focus beyond …

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In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future

| Importance: 8/10

On July 1, 2009, In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures simultaneously invested in Recorded Future, a startup founded by Christopher Ahlberg that specialized in using artificial intelligence to monitor the open web, dark web, and social media to predict future events. Each firm invested under $10 million in …

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