The $7.5 billion car surveillance company already has a network of tens of thousands of smart license plate readers, and starting this fall, cops will be able to use them as more traditional surveillance cameras, requesting live feeds or clips from the time when a vehicle passes through its field of vision.

Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley told Forbes that the update should give police more “situational awareness,” but civil liberties experts have worried for years about the company’s expansion. Jay Stanley, technology director at the ACLU, worries Flock “is trying to build a nationwide authoritarian surveillance system.”

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President Donald Trump issued a travel ban barring people in 12 countries—primarily from the Middle East and Africa—from visiting the U.S. The proclamation cites visa overstay rates for most of the impacted countries and cites terrorism concerns with Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Cuba and others. The order includes a number of exceptions to the travel ban, including lawful permanent U.S. residents, diplomats, athletes and more.

A new bill that passed the House calls on federal agencies to write all new small business contracts using “plain language,” potentially helping level the playing field for smaller firms that have long complained that federal contracts are too difficult to understand. But there’s a major payoff for firms that do break through the legal language and maze of requirements: $183 million worth of federal contracts went to small firms in fiscal year 2024.

The Department of Education said Columbia University violated federal anti-discrimination laws and failed to meet accreditation standards over its handling of pro-Palestinian protests last year. The department said in a statement that Columbia “acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students,” the Trump Administration’s latest scrutiny of the school.

MORE: In a proclamation signed Wednesday night, Trump suspended entry into the U.S. of any new Harvard University student or researcher under the F, M or J student and exchange visitor visas. The move does not impact international students attending other U.S. universities. In a statement, a university spokesperson said the order is a “violation of Harvard's First Amendment rights.”