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Cities across the US are canceling contracts with Flock Safety's AI-enabled license plate readers due to privacy concerns, but uncertainties remain about data retention and usage after termination.
A mod for Grand Theft Auto V allows players to destroy Flock Safety's license plate cameras for in-game cash, reflecting real-world backlash against surveillance technology.
Florida's Department of Transportation has ordered the removal of Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers from state highways within 30 days, citing concerns over privacy and misuse.
A Georgia police officer was accused of misusing Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers to track a former romantic partner and another officer, leading to his resignation and an ongoing investigation.
Vandalism of Flock license plate cameras in Houston has hindered police investigations into an attempted child kidnapping, intensifying debates over the technology's privacy implications.
Gardner police have discontinued Flock license plate cameras due to privacy and data-access concerns, leading to contract cancellation and camera deactivation.
Several Wisconsin cities have withdrawn from Flock's automated license plate camera network due to privacy and trust concerns, reducing the network's value for remaining law enforcement users.
A newsletter digest covering Flock's tightened rules on license plate reader access to combat surveillance abuse, a CRISPR-based cloning advance that could help conservation or create human organ sacks, and a scientist's effort to map children's cells.
Experts and civil liberties groups argue that Flock's new safeguards against police stalking via license plate readers are ineffective, as officers can easily circumvent requirements like case numbers, making the measures more of a PR move than a real solution.
Police-tech company Flock Safety is tightening access rules for its license plate reader network after reports of officer abuse and city contract cancellations, but critics say loopholes remain.
Flock CEO Garrett Langley apologizes and announces updates to its surveillance tools, including mandatory Audit Assistance, case codes for searches, and reducing default ALPR data retention from 30 to 7 days, after reports of police stalking via its license plate cameras. The ACLU responds skeptically, calling the changes more PR than substantive reform.
The author argues that historical searches of license plate reader (ALPR) data should require a warrant, citing legal precedents like Carpenter and discussing the Schmidt v. City of Norfolk case.
Ars Technica reports on SignalTrace, a Leonardo surveillance system that associates Bluetooth/device signals with license plates to help police identify people of interest without prior identity knowledge, raising privacy concerns.
Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate reader cameras are proliferating across Texas, prompting a backlash from privacy advocates and proposed federal legislation to require warrants for data access. The article highlights the growing tension between law enforcement use and civil liberties concerns.
Wired reports that Flock, an automatic license plate reader company, promoted several police departments in its YouTube videos that have since faced allegations of misusing the technology, highlighting systemic ALPR misuse issues.
A growing movement of vigilantes is disabling Flock Safety's automated license plate readers across the US, citing privacy concerns over mass surveillance without warrants.
Americans across political divides are uniting in opposition to Flock Safety's automated license plate reader cameras, citing privacy concerns and fears of mass government surveillance, with critics highlighting the network effect business model that incentivizes data collection.
The ACLU of Massachusetts is releasing an online toolkit for criminal defense attorneys to force prosecutors to disclose whether police used surveillance technologies like facial recognition, license plate readers, and stingrays against defendants, aiming to expose secret state surveillance in court.
Communities are pushing back against Flock's AI surveillance cameras, with the LAPD letting its contract expire over privacy concerns and dozens of other contracts terminated across the US. An Air Force engineer faces charges for cutting down cameras, claiming they are unconstitutional.
Air Force engineer Jeffrey Sovern faces felony charges for allegedly destroying 13 Flock Safety surveillance cameras in Virginia, igniting a national debate over privacy and the constitutionality of automated license plate readers.