Florida County Has No Idea Where Mysterious LPR Cameras Came From
St. Lucie County revoked authorization for 52 license plate readers on county right-of-way, then discovered its own permit file could…
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Somebody Took Apart A Flock Camera And Found 1.6 Million Photos, Including One Of A Flag Patch
A hacked Flock camera's own logs show 28 photos per passing car and 50,200 vehicles in 21 days. The plate…
Flock’s Camera Installer Called Police on a Reporter. Your Car Can’t Object.
A driver passing a Flock Safety camera gets no warning, no chance to ask why...
Congress Filed a Bill Called the ‘Flock-Off Act.’ It Won’t Take Down a Single Camera.
Somewhere in a public works garage or a police evidence lot, there may soon be...
California Killed Its License Plate Camera Bill for a Fifth Straight Year. This Time, Nobody Even Had to Vote No
On the last day California lawmakers met this year, Senate Bill 1013 sat in a...
Breaking: Florida Didn’t Ban Flock’s Spy Cameras. It Just Evicted Them From the Shoulder
Read the headlines this week and you’d think Florida just switched off a surveillance network....
DeSantis Wants To Ban License Plate Cameras — But Missed The Network Selling Your Data To Lenders
Ban every police license plate camera in Florida tomorrow, and your car does not become...
Senator Hawley Is Investigating Flock Safety’s 120,000 Cameras. Your License Plate Was Never the Point
Flock Safety’s cameras do not need to read your license plate to know it’s your...
Flock’s CEO Compared Banning His Cameras to Banning Cars. His Own Website Proves the Analogy Backwards
Garrett Langley, the CEO of Flock Safety, picked an odd hill to defend this week....
A Georgia Sheriff’s Office Fired Its Fourth Employee for Flock Camera Misuse This Year. Somehow, That’s the Good News.
Cherokee County, Georgia, wants you to read Wednesday’s arrest as proof its license plate camera...
259 Plate Searches, Zero Warrants: A Cop Turned Traffic Cameras Into Her Personal Stalking Tool
There’s a dropdown menu inside the New Bedford Police Department’s Flock cameras terminal that asks...
Flock Just Rewrote Its Privacy Rules. It Still Can’t Stop A Typo From Turning A Press-Fleet Range Rover Into A ‘Stolen’ Car
Somewhere in Los Angeles this past June, someone at a Jaguar Land Rover dealership misplaced...
Flock Wanted 350,000 Uber and Lyft Dashcams to Spy for It. Nobody Behind the Wheel Would Have Known.
The dashcam mounted on your Uber driver’s windshield was sold as a witness. A silent,...
New Jersey Police Dressed Up As Bushes To Catch Texting Drivers
A police officer in Dunellen, New Jersey spent six hours this week standing inside a...
California’s 100-MPH Crackdown Isn’t a New Law. It’s an Old One Wearing a Radar Gun
California has run this play before, just never on speeders. For thirty-five years the state...