Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator
Livonia police used an AI-generated teen persona to arrest a man who tried to meet a fictitious 15-year-old.
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Flock Safety
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19 articles · newest firstBenn Jordan on Flock, privacy, and the new surveillance backlash
Benn Jordan discusses Senate scrutiny, contract cancellations, and layoffs hitting Flock Safety's license-plate camera network.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 2
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Day 2 in San Francisco is an AI and startup agenda with ticket promotions.
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Flock can now issue CVEs for its own products. Should we trust it?
Flock Safety became a CVE Numbering Authority for vulnerabilities in its own surveillance products.
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Watch an Unconstitutional Flock Search
404 Media says it has bodycam and in-car video of an unconstitutional Flock search, but details are paywalled.
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Proposed anti-Flock bills could spell trouble for license plate readers
US lawmakers proposed bills to restrict Flock Safety and other automated license-plate reader networks.
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Bipartisan backlash to ALPRs grows as two high-profile bills are introduced
Bipartisan bills would restrict AI license-plate cameras from Flock, Motorola, and Axon amid privacy backlash.
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Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
404 Media’s podcast covers a claimed hack exposing data on all FBI employees and spouses.
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Surveillance Finds a Way
VIDIZMO markets facial recognition, behavior prediction, and demographic analysis for Flock and Axon camera footage, filling the gap Flock refuses to touch.
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
VIDIZMO pitches police on adding facial recognition, watchlists, and racial/gender analysis to exported Flock camera data, despite Flock's no-facial-recognition pledge.
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One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
Palm Beach woman Lindsey Isaacs spent 13 days in jail, including solitary, after Flock ALPR data wrongly linked her car to a deadly crash.
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Fixing Flock: The controls needed now that misuse patterns are clear
An opinion piece urges stronger access, retention, and audit controls for Flock's plate-reader network.
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Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
Critics say new Apple Watch transcription features and Meta camera glasses normalize always-on surveillance.
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Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras
Researchers reverse-engineered a captured Flock camera, finding person detection and an encryption key left unencrypted.
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Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
Flock Safety offers voluntary buyouts to its roughly 1,500 employees as customer losses, privacy backlash, and camera vandalism strain the $8 billion company.
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Flock cameras are tracking people as well as cars
Investigations found Flock cameras detect people, hackers recovered on-device encryption keys to unlock videos, and DC police tracked officers via Flock data.
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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
Hackers stole a Flock Safety camera, copied its storage, and recovered an encryption key exposing vehicle surveillance data and system internals.
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This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
WIRED reconstructs Flock Safety's AI-powered police surveillance search interface, exposing how AI person-description search and moderation work in law enforcement cameras.
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The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed
The National Park Service installed Flock license plate reader cameras at parks including Yosemite, drawing criticism from current and former rangers.
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