Flock Safety unveils oversight tools after misuse reports, cancellations

Here's a heartwarming example of the day. Police in North Carolina asked for the public's help to find vandals who defaced their flock cameras. Instead, the public discovered that the license plate readers recognize faces. And they're not happy. www.facebook.com/clt.stories/...

More than 50 agencies or communities have canceled, suspended or rejected a Flock contract or deactivated their cameras since the beginning of 2026, according to DeFlock, a grassroots group that tracks license plate reader deployments. From @stateline.org

Next week I'm joining a panel to talk about Flock cameras and ALPRs with Red Wine & Blue at 8pm ET on Tuesday 8/18. It's online and free to register, so come join us if you want a deep dive on government surveillance secure.ngpvan.com/8AfflOIXXEi2...

There is a comforting way to tell the story of what is happening to Flock Safety in Arizona. A few police officers misused a powerful investigative tool. Their departments caught them. Audits worked.

Flock Safety tightens safeguards as states, cities question surveillance network | via Amanda Watford #ksleg

"Sullivan County commissioner says Flock Safety CEO should be publicly hanged"

considering the cops are getting fewer responsibilities and lazier with flock cameras. I don't know a job that gives more funding when the workers get fewer responsibilities.

It took roughly 31 million tests to create a pattern capable of confusing Flock cameras into missing cars. Cybersecurity researcher Bill Swearingen spent the past year training a system to generate adversarial patterns. These designs appear strange yet remain clearly visible to…

...through terrorizing American neighborhoods in the name of national security, Flock cameras on every corner with no accountability on data storage or usage that the fed can take using nat'l security, violent J6 masked men with histories of rebellion armed with a $70B check. Something is brewing.

if flock cameras really are “for safety”, then why are they in like relatively safe suburbs or a random home depot parking lot w barely any foot traffic

What a joke. LET IT BE KNOWN: "A Flock camera contains 2-3 pound of Copper & 1-2 grams of Gold" 🫡 Flock rolls out new police auditing and accountability controls following surveillance concerns | CNN Business

No, no it is not good. Learn more about how we can get the Flock out of our communities: www.aclu.org/campaigns-in...

Most troubling. Why? & What? Can be most certain it's but one part of the new, surveillance state. The infrastructure & data are in place. Palantir, Flock Cameras, ICE... Spent 8 days in China in 2019. My face was scanned as soon as I departed the plane, then recognized everywhere. #Authoritarian

Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/2044246/flock-announces-changes-amid-backlash-over-its-license-plate-reader-network?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

‘We are finding bad cops’: Growing concerns over Flock cameras, privacy addressed www.local3news.com/local-news/w...