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Anti-Surveillance Sentiment Is In Vogue, Some People Are Exploiting It - Week in Tech
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What’s driving America’s growing backlash against surveillance tech? Taylor Lorenz ( User Mag ) unpacks the outcry over Flock cameras and why the company thinks they are being unfairly targeted. Then, Gerrit De Vynck ( The Washington Post ) breaks down Mark Zuckerberg’s latest AI manifesto and Meta’s bid to catch up in the AI race. Finally, Nitasha Tiku ( The Washington Post ) explains OpenAI’s strange onstage postmortem of the Hugging Face hack… and why this moment feels so surreal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.