Communities from Lansing, Michigan, to Pflugerville, Texas, are ending their relationship with Flock, largely over concerns regarding out-of-control surveillance, unwanted data
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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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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With each city that leaves, the Flock network becomes less useful to those that remain—and many metropolitan areas are starting to notice.
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
The ACLU has warned that “serious concerns” remain about how cops use Flock data and whether agencies or Flock are actually willing to stop abuse.
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