A Waymo robotaxi in San Mateo, California monitored two 15-year-old passengers in real time, alerted police, and remotely steered itself to a parking lot for their detention — raising urgent questions about autonomous vehicle surveillance and law enforcement access.
Federal agents raided a Texas activist’s home with flash-bangs and armored vehicles, then returned days later to offer her up to $200,000 to become an FBI informant targeting antifascist networks — all without filing charges against her.
Anthropic secretly embedded tracking code in Claude Code to monitor Chinese users’ timezones, proxy settings, and AI lab affiliations — a revelation that sharply contradicts the company’s high-profile refusal to enable US government surveillance.