CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The Concorde crash is a fascinating story - but why only tell half of it?
The sound of Concorde, a sort of approaching rumble, was so distinctive that you didn't have to look up when it went overhead. But we always did. There was no sight like it.
Extraordinary moment bloodied pilot greets police officer after miracle escape from fighter jet that plowed into mountainside
The pilot was flying an F/A-18 Hornet during routine training on June 13, when he experienced a 'non-fatal aviation mishap' that sent the jet crashing into a mountainside.
Brothers who stole £62,000 worth of Pokémon cards are jailed
Shane Johnson, 37, and Keith Johnson, 33, burgled a gaming shop in Warrington and a gallery in Rugby.
Influencers warned to stop taking selfies with sharks after series of attacks
Cases of sharks biting humans are admittedly rare, but in the last year, at least three influencers have been attacked.
'Apocalyptic' aftermath of Stourbridge wildfire revealed as residents return to their homes on millionaires' row after they were destroyed by inferno
Workmen were seen clearing rubble from the luxury homes along Racecourse Lane this morning after Thursday's inferno left 37 homes either destroyed or damaged.
Somali man, 22, is charged with attempted murder after migrant hotel worker is stabbed
Police rushed to the Stanwell Hotel in west London at around 6.30pm on Saturday where they found a man in his 30s suffering from life-threatening injuries.
Pierce Brosnan, 73, and his son Paris, 25, address nepo-baby comments as the James Bond star says he has told his offspring to 'train and study'
Pierce Brosnan and his son Paris have shared their thoughts on the nepo-baby commentary after his son followed in his acting footsteps.
Four Renaissance paintings of 'extraordinary value' are stolen from museum in Sicily
The paintings by Antonello da Messina were taken under cover of a huge religious festival that sees 100,000 people flock to the city of Messina.
I'm Britain's first deafblind doctor... here's why my disabilities have made me better with patients
Dr Alexandra Adams, 32, says her heightened sense of touch has helped her find veins after other medics had failed.
Moment hundreds of migrants try to storm Ceuta in second 'invasion' attempt before being beaten back and arrested by riot police
Huge crowds of men were seen storming the border crossing at the northern tip of the African continent.
The Great British Bake Off shares FIRST LOOK at Nigella Lawson as the replacement for Prue Leith after it was claimed she 'isn't really getting on too well' with co-judge Paul Hollywood
The Great British Bake Off have revealed a first look at the show's new presenting and judging line-up after Nigella Lawson was announced as Prue Leith's replacement.
Flock's 'Creepy Cameras' Remain Major Threat to Privacy Despite Small Recent Changes, Warns ACLU
While Flock announced changes for its AI-powered traffic cameras, "Several of the proposed changes Flock is touting are merely retreads of previous ," complains the American Civil Liberties Union. "Flock's latest announcement still appears more focused on addressing a perceived PR problem than the significant harms its products create... [T]his is hardly the step forward Flock wants us to think it is "
The ACLU continues to urge that default retention periods be shortened to 48 hours — not one week. And they warn Flock allows longer retention to any police department that asks for it, or when police officers activate "Evidence Mode" (the scope of which is not yet clear):
Even if "Evidence Mode's" data retention hold only applies to hits returned on a given search, it would still retain significant amounts of location data on persons and vehicles who law enforcement do not suspect have engaged in any wrongdoing...
Flock claims that its changes will provide "more local control," meaning local police can decide what types of offenses other Flock customers can search their data for... This is not new. Flock has attempted this before, and the security measure failed because users were easily able to circumvent the system's requirement that police input the purpose of their search. For example, on June 12, 2025 Flock started claiming its new "Proactive Search Term Tool" would block any "impermissible" searches, such as abortion-related searches in states like Illinois that prohibit sharing reproductive healthcare data. But police officers quickly realized they could just input "investigation" or even "hehehe" as a search reason and it would be approved. Flock later switched from an open text box to a drop-down menu of reasons, but that just offered police a list of acceptable purposes they could choose from, whether it was accurate or not. Until Flock demonstrates they can develop a reliable, workable system to prevent improper searches, this promise of local control provides nothing more than a false sense of security...
While providing "Audit Assistance" to all departments makes sense, there is no evidence that the tool works consistently to address what the Washington Post observed is a growing pattern of police officers turning Flock into a personal stalking tool. While dozens of officers have recently been arrested, fired, or otherwise disciplined for misusing Flock for personal reasons, Flock claims these arrests are proof its auditing tool works. However, unless we know the number of officers misusing the system, we cannot conclude if Flock and its auditing tools are catching 95 percent of violators or 5 percent. Flock needs to have its auditing tool analyzed by an independent evaluator to determine its actual effectiveness. Until then, we don't know if the tool is a real security measure or just window dressing.
Perhaps the oddest part of Flock's announcement is its claims that "now every search will require" police to input a case code... While claiming that a "search without a reason is a search that shouldn't happen in the first place," Flock's announcement fails to note how easily users have circumvented "search reason" security measures in the past... This leaves the public wondering how making an ineffective voluntary security measure mandatory will improve its functionality.
Flock's "nearly $1 billion in venture capitalist funding has locked it into an operational model that seeks to trade our privacy for massive profits," concludes the ACLU's statement, as they promise to continue "The ACLU is fighting alongside communities to cancel local ALPR contracts and push lawmakers to protect our rights from this surveillance nightmare..."
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Iran unveils sick cash prize to anyone who captures or kills American troops...as panic mounts in DC over plots to assassinate Trump
Iran announced a chilling cash prize for anyone who captures or kills American troops, and some can get double the reward as tensions remain high between the two countries amid the ongoing war.
Emergency Government phone alert 'put domestic abuse victims at risk'
After the blaring warning sounded from phones across the country on Friday, charities and survivors said it could have put victims who keep secret second phones at risk.
Ariana Grande appears to debut MATCHING tattoo with boyfriend Ricky Alvarez after hard launching their on-again romance
The pop star, 33, debuted ink on her collarbone at her concert in London over the weekend amid her Eternal Sunshine Tour as she kicked off her 10-day residency at the O2 on Saturday.
Gillian Anderson details 'secretive' teen relationship with 'an older girl at school' and calls The Crown creator boyfriend Peter Morgan her 'life partner' in rare insight into relationship
Gillian Anderson has detailed her 'secretive' teen relationship with 'an older girl at high school' as she opened up about her sexuality in a candid new interview.
Self-branded MAGA loyalist who voted for Trump three times in support of his immigration policies is left raging after ICE agents take his Russian wife away in handcuffs
Brent Jindra considered himself a MAGA patriot until his wife, Galina Bobreneva, 40, was detained by ICE at an airport in Burbank, California, on July 13.
Woman in her 60s is arrested on suspicion of murder after OAP in her 90s dies in house fire
A woman in her 90s was found unconscious inside the property in Gloucestershire, and later pronounced dead.
'She was absolutely furious last time': Emily Atack is 'holding back on signing up to Inbetweeners reboot five years after James Buckley engineered reunion snub'
Emily Atack is said to be holding back from signing up to the Inbetweeners reboot after she was snubbed from the first two films.
Police offering £20,000 reward for information on murder of man who was gunned down by thugs on e-bikes
Sam Rimmer, 22, was with a group of friends when he was gunned down by four men on two electric bikes who fired a number of shots using a Skorpion sub-machine gun.