Factory Butte, Hanksville, UtahYour Car May Be Tracked Without You Ever Knowing
An Iowa policy tells deputies to avoid mentioning Flock license plate readers to drivers or in reports.
https://www.autoblog.com/news/your-car-may-be-tracked-without-you-ever-knowing
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Automated license plate readers are becoming an increasingly common tool for police departments across the U.S., but a newly revealed policy shows that some officers are being told to keep their use of the technology under the radar.
According to a report from 404 Media, deputies in Iowa’s Wapello County were instructed not to tell drivers when Flock cameras helped identify their vehicles. They were also told to leave the technology out of police reports unless it was “absolutely necessary.”
Factory Butte, Hanksville, UtahKentucky farm family rejects anonymous $26M data center offer
https://www.agdaily.com/technology/kentucky-farm-family-rejects-26m-data-center-offer/
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A Northern Kentucky farm family’s recent decision to reject a $26 million land offer is putting a spotlight on a growing national tension: the collision between farmland preservation and the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Ida Huddleston, 82, and her daughter, Delsia Bare, turned down a lucrative proposal to sell part of their roughly 1,200-acre farm near Maysville, Kentucky — land their family has worked for generations.
“Stay and hold and feed a nation,” Bare said, according to WKRC. “$26 million doesn’t mean anything.”
The offer came from an unnamed company seeking land for a large-scale data center. The proposed development is part of a broader push by major technology firms to secure rural land for AI-powered infrastructure.
For the Huddleston family, the decision wasn’t financial, it was personal and historical.
“My grandfather and great-grandfather and a whole bunch of family have all lived here for years, paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it,” Bare told the TV station. “Even raised wheat through the Depression and kept bread lines up in the United States of America when people didn’t have anything else.”
That generational connection to the land ultimately outweighed an offer far above market value. Bare told Realtor.com, “There is no price on earth enough for what they are getting ready to do. There’s no replacing what they’re getting ready to destroy.”
.....“They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,” she said. “We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don’t have any water — and that poison. Well, we know we’ve had it.”
She was even more direct about the company’s promises. “I say they’re a liar, and the truth isn’t in them,” she said. “That’s what I say. It’s a scam,” according to WKRC.
.....As Maysville Today wrote, “The Huddlestons’ decision to forgo a life-changing financial windfall in order to maintain their family’s farming legacy underscores the enduring value that some rural landowners place on stewardship and tradition over pure profit.”