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Florida and Texas Move Away from Flock Cameras Over Citizen Surveillance
Two states are winding down their cooperation with a provider of license-plate recognition systems amid reports of abuse. Flock's network numbers roughly 130,000 cameras nationwide.
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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 CEO Calls for “Compromise” Amid Growing Criticism of Surveillance
Flock Safety, the company behind cameras, drones and license-plate recognition systems, has come under fire from left- and right-wing politicians alike. Its CEO is proposing a balance between privacy and security.
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Surveillance in U.S. National Parks: NPS Installs Flock Cameras, Rangers Outraged
The U.S. National Park Service has installed automatic Flock license plate readers in Yosemite and other parks. Current and former rangers are calling it an invasion of visitors' privacy.
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US Courts Will Start Disclosing How Often the Government Uses Spyware
For the first time, the US judicial system will begin publishing statistics on how many times judges have authorized the interception of communications using hacking tools. The first data will appear in 2029.
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SparrowMap: Cameras That Watch Government Cars
The project proposes turning an old phone into a camera that recognizes government vehicles on the streets and plots them on a shared map, destroying data about everyone else right on the device.
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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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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed Palantir's System
New procurement documents show that the U.S. immigration agency intends to extend its access to LexisNexis data troves and feed them into Palantir platforms to hunt for deportation targets.
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A Pattern Against Surveillance: How to Fool Recognition Cameras
Security researcher Bill Swearingen has built an algorithm that generates patterns which hide people, faces and cars from automated recognition systems. At Def Con he put the tool to the test in the real world for the first time.
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Why a Flock Employee Quit: “They Lied”
Jonathan Paz urged American cities to buy Flock surveillance cameras, but grew disillusioned with the company — after it emerged that federal immigration agencies had gained access to its system.
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A Surveillance Treaty Dressed Up as Fighting Cybercrime: Canada Signs the UN Convention
Ottawa quietly signed the UN Convention against Cybercrime at the height of summer — a treaty it had itself opposed and declined to sign just nine months earlier. Rights advocates warn that behind the banner of fighting crime lies a global mechanism for cross-border surveillance.
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Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden Switched Off for Taylor Swift's Wedding
The system that scans every visitor to the arena and flags opponents of biometric surveillance was turned off for the duration of the star's private celebration.
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Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell-Phone Surveillance System
The Israeli company Cognyte supplies police with FalcoNet, a device that mimics a cell tower and forces nearby phones to connect to it. A contract with the state of Texas has revealed the details of how the system works.
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Hunting Flock Cameras: An Anti-Surveillance Movement Gains Ground in the US
Across America, activists are disabling the automatic license-plate readers made by Flock, and the authorities are already treating the fight against them as a matter of national security.
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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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Britain Scraps Digital ID Cards Under Pressure of Nearly 3 Million Signatures
The UK's new government has wound down a digital identity programme that sparked mass resistance, redirecting the savings toward lowering electricity bills.
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MIT Is Rolling Out a Network of 500 Cameras with AI Recognition
According to the student newspaper The Tech, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is spending more than $3 million on a video surveillance system capable of classifying people by clothing, gender and age.
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ACLU: Camera maker Flock systematically lies to governments and police
Civil-rights advocates at the ACLU have accused Flock Safety, a supplier of automated license-plate recognition systems, of a string of knowingly false statements to city councils, police, and the public.
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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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Kaiser Permanente Nurses Say AI and Workplace Surveillance Are Making Patient Care Worse
Medical staff at Kaiser Permanente, a major U.S. clinic network, complain that the rollout of AI tools and employee-surveillance systems is hurting the quality of their work and of patient care. The story drew wide discussion on Hacker News.
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