13 Days. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.
EP 312. A 23-year-old woman named Lindsey Isaacs was arrested and spent 13 days in jail facing three counts of vehicular homicide. She spent 86 hours in solitary confinement. She feared she would spend the rest of her life in prison. The evidence against her was clear: a Flock automated license plate camera captured her black Dodge Durango near the crash scene shortly before it happened. The only problem was that her SUV had no crash damage, the actual driver had a maroon Durango with a different license plate, and a 911 caller had described the maroon vehicle. None of that mattered. The camera had recorded her location, and investigators treated that location like proof. On September 23, 2026, Lindsey Isaacs testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee about her 13 days in jail. Days later, a federal judge ruled that warrantless searches of Flock databases constitute "indiscriminate mass surveillance." Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the...
