THE TELL

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A "tell" is the small thing that gives away the big one.

A margin nobody published. A meeting quietly cancelled. A number that arrives without an audit.

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Not the event. What follows from it.

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Texas spent over $30 million on Flock AI surveillance cameras. The money was primarily raised by adding a $1 fee to insurance policies — allegedly to fight catalytic converter theft. That's according to a Texas Tribune investigation.

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Open question: a freeze on new spending isn't removal of what's already up. Cities across Texas are cancelling Flock contracts on their own. Does the state follow them, or does it just stop buying more and leave the existing cameras watching?

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A company called Flock Safety has more than 120,000 AI cameras installed across the US. Senator Bernie Sanders says they scan and record 20 billion vehicles every month, in over 6,000 communities. On Wednesday he promised a bill to stop it.

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Neither bill exists on paper yet. So the real question: if a camera never looks at your face but always knows where your car was, is that surveillance? Flock says no. Two members of Congress who agree on nothing else now say yes.

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In 2023 Texas added $1 to every car insurance policy in the state. The stated purpose: fight catalytic converter theft. Three years later, at least $30 million of that money had gone to Flock license plate cameras — at least 3,200 of them, from El Paso to the Louisiana…

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Gov. Abbott's office announced a pause on state funding for local Flock grants on a Friday evening — after reporters kept asking about the findings. The authority's chair said publicly in 2023 that he hoped to "cover the entire state" with cameras. What else is being…