A Private Surveillance Network Built on Tow Trucks Has Scanned 9 Billion License Plates. California Courts Just Said That’s Fine
Somewhere in California right now, a tow truck is rolling down a residential street, and...
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Ford Wanted to Patent a Car That Locks You Out and Drives Itself to the Junkyard. The Government Said No.
A Ford Bronco did not get bricked in traffic on a Michigan expressway last week....
A Truck Driver Rammed Down Three License Plate Cameras in Rural California. Flock Safety Barely Noticed
Marcus Bee allegedly drove roughly 150 miles from his home in Pismo Beach to a...
This State’s New AI Truck Cameras Aren’t Really About Safety. They’re About Lawsuits.
New Hampshire announced this week that its Department of Transportation is wiring artificial intelligence cameras...
DeKalb County Paid $19 Million for a No-Bid Decade of Car Surveillance
Every driver who passes through DeKalb County, Georgia gets photographed, logged, and run against a...
LAPD Quit Flock’s Camera Network Two Weeks Ago. Connecticut’s Smallest Towns Just Reached the Same Conclusion.
Somewhere in Killingworth, Connecticut, population barely 6,500, a handful of elected officials just made the...
A Georgia Crime Center Supervisor Got Busted Using Flock to Track Her Partner’s Car. She’s Also the Least Interesting Part of This Story.
Paige Forte did not chase a stolen Charger across three counties, crack a gang case,...
The Kill Switch Already in Millions of Financed Cars
Ask any repo agent how the job used to work, and you’ll hear the same...
California’s New Insurance Bill Will Let Your Car Snitch on You — This Time With Paperwork
For twenty years, California has been the one state in the country where your auto...
A West Virginia Man Now Faces Felony Charges for Destroying License Plate Cameras. The County May Not Even Own Them
A man in West Virginia is accused of ripping license plate reader cameras off their...
Norway Found a Remote Kill Switch in a Chinese Bus. Your Car Has One Too.
Last summer, engineers working for Oslo’s public transit agency drove two electric buses into an...
Ford’s New Remote Kill Switch Isn’t Really About Stopping Car Thieves. It’s About Owning The Off Switch.
Ford wants you picturing a thief. Someone jimmies open your F-150, leaves your own key...
Flock Killed Its Scream-Detecting Microphones. The License-Plate Dragnet Bolted Next to Them Is Doing Just Fine
Flock Safety wants credit for backing off something creepy. Fair enough. It earned some. The...
Case-by-Case: Every Reported Flock License Plate Camera Error to Date
Automated license plate readers like those made by Flock Safety are marketed to police departments...
People Keep Destroying Flock Cameras Across America. The Paperwork Already Saw It Coming.
Somewhere in Ashland, Ohio, a city employee is filling out a purchase order this week...