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A Single Flock Camera Hit Put an Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
A 23-year-old Florida woman was arrested for a triple-fatal crash on the strength of one license-plate-camera image of her car. Her vehicle didn't have so much as a dent.
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Wisconsin Police Searched a Veteran's Car in Flock More Than 100 Times After He Filmed Them at Work
A U.S. Navy veteran used his phone to record an officer at work in a parking lot — and over the following weeks his white BMW was run dozens of times through the Flock license-plate tracking system.
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How a Dollar From Texas Auto Insurance Paid for Thousands of Flock Surveillance Cameras
In 2023, Texas lawmakers unanimously raised the cost of auto insurance by a dollar — to fight catalytic converter theft. Three years later, it turned out the money went to expanding a network of license-plate recognition cameras.
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Flock Admits It Got This Wrong: Stalking People Is Being Made Harder by Default
After reports of police officers using Flock's systems to stalk former partners, the company is changing its default settings and acknowledging a share of the responsibility.
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Drones Instead of Patrols: Aerial Response Programs Surge in the U.S.
After the FAA streamlined its approval process, more than a thousand agencies won the right to launch autonomous police drones. The EFF warns of a new wave of surveillance from the sky.
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How a Typo in a License Plate Turned a Driver into a Car Thief: The Flock Camera Failure
Because two characters were left out, the Flock license-plate recognition system flagged an entire fleet of Jaguar Land Rover cars as stolen — and its makers insisted everything had worked exactly as intended.
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Vancouver police website adds a “Quick Escape” button that wipes the trail from browser history
The Vancouver Police Department's official website has been fitted with a Quick Escape feature — an emergency exit button that deletes the record of the visit from the browser's history. The news caught the attention of Hacker News users.
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Flock Safety Didn't Threaten Participants in a Surveillance Debate
A photo of a letter resembling an official complaint from Flock Safety surfaced on the social media accounts of a lecture club in Newport Beach. The incident set off a fresh wave of criticism aimed at the surveillance-systems maker.
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Police Arrest 5,800 People in Global Operation Against Fraudsters
Law enforcement agencies from 97 countries carried out a joint operation against financial fraud, detaining thousands of suspects and seizing hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit assets.
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Flock cameras have learned to identify cars without license plates
According to the company's 2024 presentation, the “Vehicle Fingerprint” system lets police track cars by their stickers, roof racks and other distinctive features, even when the plate isn't visible.