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Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras

Activist dressed as Doctor Doom urged Seattle's council to curb Axon and Flock surveillance after a committee voted to redirect $250,000 from CCTV expansion.

Clifford Cawthon, a policy advisor at the Washington State Department of Commerce, appeared at a Seattle Public Safety Committee meeting in costume as Doctor Doom to protest the city's expanding mass surveillance. He criticized Seattle PD's access to 62 cameras feeding an Axon real-time crime center that ingests CCTV, body camera, geolocation, ALPR, and dispatch data from vendors like Axon and Flock. His group Community Not Cameras submitted a petition with five demands, and a committee already voted to move $250,000 away from CCTV expansion pending full council approval.

404 Media · 6d agoPolicy & legal

Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras

Schneier on Security highlights a printed vehicle-camouflage pattern tested to defeat Flock surveillance cameras and Axon body cameras.

The post discusses covering cars with printed patterns designed to fool Flock automated license-plate recognition software, with testing reportedly done against Flock and Axon body cameras. Reader comments question effectiveness against other ALPR vendors, Flock's RF MAC-address upgrade, and whether such camouflage might become regulated. The page also contains off-topic comment threads about anti-bot over-blocking and privacy.

Schneier on Security · 8d agoResearch

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

Johnson County, Texas deputies used Axon's Draft One AI to write a report about searching 80,000+ Flock cameras for a woman who self-administered an abortion.

Documents show the Johnson County Sheriff's Office used Flock's nationwide camera network and Axon's Draft One, which drafts police reports from body camera audio, in its investigation of a woman's self-administered abortion. The AI-generated report summarized deputies' discussion of legal implications, noting Texas law provided no applicable criminal charges. Flock CEO Garrett Langley has repeatedly claimed the search was a family welfare check, but earlier police reports indicate it was initiated at the behest of the woman's abusive partner.

404 Media · 13d agoAI safety & security

Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Them

Axon says police want its ALPR cameras to look different from Flock devices as widespread vandalism and public backlash against Flock spreads.

Axon executives said in an August 26 webinar, later deleted, that law enforcement customers asked for ALPR camera redesigns so they look less like Flock cameras amid widespread vandalism of Flock devices. Some cities are switching from Flock to Axon cameras after reports of police misuse, including lookups for ICE, tracking of a woman who self-administered an abortion, and stalking of ex-spouses. Vandalism of Flock cameras has led to arrests, including a man charged with three felonies for breaking a 3D-printed decoy camera.

404 Media · 13d agoOther

Podcast: Mark Zuckerberg’s 'Superintelligent' AI Future That No One Wants

404 Media podcast discusses Meta's 'superintelligent' AI agents push, AI posing as human peer reviewers, and cities swapping Flock cameras for Axon.

This 404 Media podcast episode covers Jason Koebler's article on Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay and plan for Meta AI agents, Emanuel Maiberg's finding that a company advertising '100% human-written, never AI' medical peer review is actually entirely AI-generated, and Joseph Cox's reporting on cities ditching Flock license plate readers only to replace them with Axon ones. The episode is commentary and journalism roundup rather than a security or AI research disclosure.

404 Media · Aug 12, 2026AI industry

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vendor Flock 5organization 404 Media 3organization Electronic Frontier Foundation 1organization ICE 1organization Johnson County Sheriff's Office 1organization Meta 1organization Seattle Police Department 1organization Washington State Department of Commerce 1product ALPR cameras 1product Axon Real-Time Crime Center 1product Draft One 1product Flock ALPR 1product Flock license plate readers 1product Lightpost 1product Outpost 1vendor 404 Media 1
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