While some Arkansas cities are reneging on a controversial means to conduct surveillance through Artificial Intelligence, Arkadelphia’s police chief says the Flock Safety camera system is here to stay
At least six Arkansas communities have stopped using Flock Safety public surveillance and license plate reader cameras since July 24, but will a backlash ever occur regarding modern life’s other, much bigger privacy encroachments?
County officials and employees are expected to abide by a policy related to Artificial Intelligence
The backlash in some Arkansas communities about data centers’ drain on their resources like electricity and water reflects just one element of the public’s worries about this technology
A yearlong pause on new data centers in Arkansas’ most populous county won’t take effect after the county’s clerk said she miscounted the number of votes in favor of the moratorium
Secrecy may be standard operating procedure when it comes to economic development. But it makes for bad politics and potentially even worse policy, as the fight over data centers in Arkansas makes abundantly clear.
Hailed by officials and economic developers as a boon to the state, data center projects heading to Arkansas are facing increasing scrutiny and calls for local regulations
