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Federal Judge Rules a Flock License-Plate Search Was Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
A judge in Oklahoma found that an officer violated the Fourth Amendment by running a California plate through Flock's automated reader network without a warrant. The nationwide system, she wrote, is approaching "indiscriminate mass surveillance."
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San Francisco Keeps Its License-Plate Cameras, Offering Only Weak Safeguards
EFF has criticized the city's decision to retain its automated license-plate reader network, arguing that the new rules do nothing to remove the core danger — the surveillance itself.
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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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Reverse-Engineering a Flock Camera: It Detects People, and the Encryption Key Sat in the Open
Hackers got hold of a Flock automatic license plate reader and dug into its software. It turned out the device detects not just plates and cars, but people, bicycles, and even bumper stickers.
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Hackers Cracked Flock's Camera Software and Showed How It Tracks Cars and People
Activists took down a traffic camera made by Flock, copied its contents and extracted the encryption key. Analysis showed the device recognizes not just license plates, but people too.
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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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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.