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....
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Lexus Australia Boss Wants Car Data Rules as Strict as Safety Standards
Car executives asking to be regulated is not a common sound in nature. It sits...
Quebec Spent 64 Pages Proving Your Car Doesn’t Respect You. Detroit Already Ran the Experiment.
A government ethics panel in Quebec just spent the better part of a year producing...
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...
Fatal Crashes Climb 15% When a Blockbuster Album Drops, Harvard Data Shows
Somebody finally found a way to measure distracted driving without asking drivers to admit they...
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,...
Toyota And Hyundai Got Caught Tracking Drivers. GM Already Put A Price On It: $25 Billion.
Five years before Australian regulators opened a file on Toyota and Hyundai, General Motors stood...
Deadliest Cars And Trucks Of 2023: What The New IIHS Fatality Data Really Shows
Two vehicles on the IIHS’s new fatality tables are the same SUV. The Volkswagen Atlas...
Savannah Just Benched Six Employees Over Flock Camera Misuse. Georgia Isn’t Dirtier Than Everyone Else — It’s Just the Only One Checking.
Six people did not lose access to Savannah’s Flock cameras this week because Georgia grows...
Toyota And Hyundai Are Being Investigated Over Your Driving Data. GM Already Wrote The Playbook For How This Ends.
Somewhere in Canberra, government lawyers are trying to work out exactly what a Toyota RAV4...
Wichita’s License-Plate Cameras Misidentify Cars Up To 20% Of The Time. Now A Local Is Suing To Rip Out All 200
A minivan does not look anything like a pickup truck. Different silhouette, different proportions, different...
Motive Sold Truckers an AI Camera to Keep Them Out of Court. Now the Camera Is the One Being Sued
For the better part of a decade, the sales pitch behind putting an AI camera...
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...