A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000
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Flock is a small fraction of the police department’s budget in Covington, GA. But amid fierce blowback about Flock’s surveillance practices, contracts with the company are now
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The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than
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