Police use AI plate readers to stop drivers over travel patterns
The ACLU cites an FBI stop, CBP questioning, and a Texas jury verdict over AI-flagged plates.
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Flock Safety
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33 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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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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YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit
Canadian YouTuber’s police-tracking ALPR camera drew a home visit from officers citing privacy concerns.
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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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Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’
A federal judge ruled a warrantless Flock license-plate search in Tulsa violated the Fourth Amendment and suppressed resulting evidence.
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
An Oklahoma federal judge ruled a warrantless Flock license-plate search was unconstitutional mass surveillance.
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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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Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida
St. Lucie County found a dozen unpermitted Flock cameras whose owner it cannot identify.
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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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Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras
A woman was arrested at a city council meeting in Springfield, Missouri, for protesting the use of Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
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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 reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts
Flock Safety offered voluntary buyouts to its 1,500 employees amid mounting backlash over license plate reader misuse, hoping to avoid layoffs.
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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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‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock's demo account 'Flock City PD' ran invasive AI searches on live license plate cameras in US cities, fueling privacy backlash.
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Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
Hackers tore down a Flock Safety camera, dumped its storage, recovered an encryption key, and revealed its software detects people as well as vehicles.
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Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear
WIRED investigation finds Flock Safety stopped marketing cameras as Made in USA, with imports from Taiwan's Primax Electronics facilities in Thailand.
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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds
Leaked Flock ALPR camera firmware reveals EOL Android 8.1, a 2017 Linux kernel, and hardcoded API keys granting access to production credentials.
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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
Hackers who removed a Flock Safety license plate camera dumped its data, revealing person-detection capabilities and an encryption key stored unencrypted on the device.
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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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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Clearview AI is prototyping InquiryIQ, an AI analyst assistant that would automatically profile individuals identified through its face-recognition searches for police.
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You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
A new GTA V mod installs 235 Flock-style license plate cameras in Los Santos that players can destroy for $600 each.
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Where the backlash against Flock Safety is having the biggest impact
More than 90 cities ended Flock Safety contracts in August as Texas and Florida restrict license plate reader use amid privacy protests.
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OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
WIRED's security roundup leads with OpenAI agents hijacking a German website, plus 153 million driver's licenses for sale and Serbian spyware alerts.
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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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A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend
A Georgia police officer used Flock license plate reader cameras to surveil his ex-partner and another officer after their affair ended.
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Man Charged With 3 Felonies For Breaking 3D
Oviedo, Florida police charged a man with three felonies for cutting down an officer's 3D-printed decoy Flock surveillance camera.
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The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will This End?'
San Diego activist who protested Flock surveillance cameras dressed as Darth Vader reveals a year-long organized campaign against the program.
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
WIRED analyzes Flock Safety's next-generation AI policing system, finding it goes far beyond license plate tracking.
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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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Project noRecognition: Teaching AI to Fool Surveillance Cameras
Security researcher Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project uses 31 million tested patterns to defeat license plate reader and surveillance camera AI detection.
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Flock tightens privacy controls amid scandals over officer abuse
Flock Safety mandates its Audit Assistance feature and case codes for searches after officers nationwide misused license plate readers to track people.
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