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25 stories and discussions about flock, aggregated from every source we track.

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Police didn't care that Linsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data.

255 points•HotGarbage•5 days ago•139 comments•
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A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.

137 points•bookofjoe•2 days ago•62 comments•
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Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’

97 points•latexr•7 days ago•39 comments•
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78 points•bundie•10 days ago•36 comments•
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We’ve moved past cops doing stuff because a dog gave them permission to do it. Now, we’re at the post-truth era of policing, where cops will do stuff because a machine told them to do i…

54 points•HotGarbage•2 days ago•17 comments•
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A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.

5 points•HotGarbage•3 days ago•2 comments•
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It could also potentially be used to track key personnel heading to and from sensitive sites like military bases, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement headquarters.

5 points•sbulaev•3 days ago•0 comments•
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The Plymouth City Council voted almost unanimously to end its contract with Flock three months after I was mistakenly targeted as a car thief.

4 points•Markoff•1 day ago•1 comment•
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4 points•Cider9986•7 days ago•1 comment•
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4 points•Cider9986•10 days ago•1 comment•
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(The Center Square) – Advocates of the growing network of AI-driven surveillance cameras argue the technology can help make communities across the U.S. safer.

3 points•DeepLogin•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Lindsey Isaacs spent 13 days in jail over a license-plate camera record; all charges were later dropped, now she's urging Senate to reform ALPR oversight.

3 points•jimt1234•6 days ago•0 comments•
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Prior to the hearing about the surveillance technology companies, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., suggested the executives could face subpoenas.

3 points•mooreds•7 days ago•0 comments•
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As Knoxville residents soured on Flock, the company got help from Neighbors for Strong Communities, a group accused of “astroturfing.”

3 points•dp-hackernews•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Flock has been promoting a recent study of its cameras' impacts on car theft. But the paper didn't demonstrate a causal effect.

3 points•pseudolus•11 days ago•0 comments•
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Independent map of about 335,701 Flock devices, published by Joshua Michael. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Flock Safety.

2 points•elgertam•6 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•ent101•7 days ago•0 comments•
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A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

1 points•bookofjoe•about 13 hours ago•1 comment•
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A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

1 points•awkwardpotato•1 day ago•1 comment•
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1 points•pseudolus•5 days ago•0 comments•
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A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.

1 points•discostrings•5 days ago•0 comments•
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Flock Safety offered to sell five years of speed and traffic data to the City of Sheboygan. The city's mayor says Flock never told them the cameras were tracking the kind of data. Now the city is looking to cancel its…

1 points•toomuchtodo•10 days ago•1 comment•
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Flock is in the hot seat in Washington, even if its CEO declined to actually face senators at a hearing about its "AI Surveillance Network" on Wednesday. "There's many players in this industry, but there's one name that really stands out above the rest, and that is Flock," Senate Judiciary crime and counterterrorism subcommittee chair Josh Hawley (R-MO) said. "If you haven't heard of Flock, all I have to say is, Flock's probably heard of you." Though the CEOs of Flock and peer companies Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Verkada declined to testify, according to Hawley, seats in the hearing room were in high demand. A standby line stretched dow … Read the full story at The Verge.

0 points•Lauren Feiner•7 days ago•0 comments

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