Elgin Community College reportedly tried to cancel its Flock Safety contract out of concern for illegal immigrant students, but was unable to after the company refused.
Flock Safety, facing mounting scrutiny over privacy and security failures related to its AI-powered license plate cameras, is cutting its workforce by 18 percent, or roughly 270 employees.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is introducing legislation as soon as Wednesday that would impose new limits on AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety and other companies used by police, local governments and businesses across the country.
Flock cameras are an endangered technology in Toledo, Ohio, with a sixth camera now vandalized in the past two months in a city with a quarter million residents.
Louisiana congressional candidate Stephen Wagley said Saturday that career politicians have let data centers and Flock surveillance cameras expand without oversight.
Columbus police have paused their use of Flock automatic license plate readers after an officer was accused of searching the same plate more than 270 times over roughly 14 months.
Americans should imagine the tyranny that would have reigned if Flock Safety surveillance cameras were widespread during the coronavirus lockdowns, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said this week, calling for legislation “that will protect Floridians from allowing the state to turn into some type of digital prison, digital surveillance state where somebody knows everything about what you’re doing every day of the week.”
Florida’s transportation department revoked local police departments’ authority to install license plate reader cameras on state highways Monday, part of a growing national backlash against Flock Safety and other surveillance camera makers.
Florida’s Putnam County Sheriff H.D. ‘Gator’ DeLoach has directed automated license plate reader cameras to be disconnected “immediately,” citing concerns from the community over questions of privacy and data sharing.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered all state agencies to stop funding local law enforcement Flock camera purchases and operations. The move comes shortly after the Texas Tribune announced an investigation into $30 million provided to local police departments for Flock cameras.
A Florida man faces felony charges after allegedly vandalizing a decoy Flock camera. The decoy, part of a vandalism sting, was built by a police officer with a personal 3D printer to catch vandals in the act.
A Florida sheriff dismissed growing concerns over Flock cameras in his community as ignorance, asserting that the AI-powered automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are essential to help solve crimes, and compared efforts to “deFlock” the community to cities who want to defund the police.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Floridians are right to be “concerned” about the fast-paced emergence of Flock surveillance cameras in their communities at every turn, telling reporters it is “out of control” and that we “don’t want to have this become a surveillance state,” acknowledging the instances of abuse, like a “police officer using this to track” an ex-girlfriend.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that “I don’t like Flock cameras. I don’t like government surveillance, I don’t think the government should be surveilling innocent citizens.” And “these Flock cameras really invite
America has to defeat China in the AI race without becoming a surveillance state, Breitbart News Social Media Director Wynton Hall said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Four former Savannah Police Department employees including three officers were arrested Friday following a Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) probe into misuse of the department’s flock camera system.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley pushed back against critics of his company’s AI-powered surveillance cameras in a recent interview with Fox News, arguing that privacy and safety concerns must be weighed together rather than against each other.
Oklahoma Republican Gov. Candidate Mike Mazzei argued that Flock surveillance cameras should only be “used for proper law enforcement work.”
A man dressed as Darth Vader appeared before the San Diego City Council on Wednesday to deliver a Star Wars-themed mocking endorsement of the city’s contested Flock surveillance cameras.
A new website allows drivers to find out whether their license plate has been photographed and searched through law enforcement agencies’ Flock camera systems.
A 24-year-old South Carolina police officer has been fired after department officials discovered she allegedly used the agency’s Flock camera system to run a former romantic partner’s license plate 166 times, according to documents.
Flock Safety, the private AI-powered security camera company installing surveillance technology around the U.S., announced new security measures amid intensifying backlash and reports of law enforcement abuse.
A Wisconsin woman was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week after Milwaukee Police Department staff failed to remove a vehicle alert from the Flock license plate camera system.
A Flock presentation obtained through a public records request shows the surveillance company planned to use dashcams installed in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft and delivery vehicles to collect license plate data for its network.
At least 50 law enforcement officers across the United States have been charged with or accused of misusing Flock automated license plate reader systems to stalk their targets, according to an investigation.
A technology journalist test-driving a Range Rover was surrounded by four police vehicles in a Minnesota parking lot after an automated license plate recognition system incorrectly flagged his vehicle as stolen due to a data entry error.
