There’s a new fixture in American parking lots, commercial districts, and public spaces: solar-powered surveillance towers mounted on trailers, bristling with cameras and flashing lights. Police departments call them COWs — “cameras on wheels.” The rest of us might as well call them what they look like: scarecrows for the…
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The Prison Call That Never Ends — Because the AI Is Still Listening
I was reading a piece in MIT Technology Review the other day — here’s the link since credit matters: https://www.technologyreview.com/ — and the thing stuck with me wasn’t the technical trick Securus built. It wasn’t the “detecting contemplated crimes” angle either. What stopped me was the quiet part: inmates are…