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How municipalities buy, renew and cancel technology contracts under public scrutiny.
Delegations from about 120 countries came to Paris to talk business, with SpaceX and Blue Origin absent. What Europe wants to own is the imaging and connectivity it currently buys from American firms.
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PPN 017 has applied to central government departments, their agencies and non-departmental bodies since 24 February 2025, and it works by telling buyers what to ask for rather than handing suppliers a new obligation.
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Four days earlier, Texas froze the car-insurance fee that paid for at least 3,200 Flock cameras. Neither state needed its legislature, which says something about install bases built on permits and grants.
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IRAP produces a report rather than a certificate, so every Australian agency still makes its own Authority to Operate call. What has changed is the scope of what gets assessed: binary storage and model registries, not just the finished app.
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The department let its Flock agreement lapse over data ownership, yet 138 city cameras keep filling a cloud it cannot read. The replacement deal is a spec sheet of data terms.
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The camera company has 120,000 license plate readers in 49 states and 7,000 agencies under contract. Dozens of cities and counties have now cut ties, and the hardware is being vandalised.
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