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- Are you being tracked?
- How ALPR systems work
- California Senate Bill 34
- California Senate Bill 54
- California Senate Bill 274
- 03/26 Article: FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
- 02/26 Article: The Deal has been Altered Further: Flock Publishes New Terms
- 03/26 Article: The $7.5 billion death trap: How Flock Safety’s glitches are ruining innocent people’s lives
- 03/26 Article: Sheriff’s deputies thought they’d stopped a criminal. But license plate cameras led them to the wrong person
- 03/26 Article: ‘Flock Flocked Up’: How a license plate camera misread unraveled one man’s life.
- 3/26 Article: Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket
- 01/26 Article: Santa Cruz leaders vote to terminate contract with Flock
- 01/26 Article: Los Altos to remove ALPR cameras
- 02/26 Article: Mountain View: City Council Terminates License Plate Reader Contract with Flock Safety
- 11/25 Article: Oakland council committee rejects Flock surveillance camera expansion
- 02/26 Update: Foothill-De Anza College Community College Discontinues Flock Contract
- 11/25 Article: WA cities reconsider Flock traffic cameras as judge rules their data is public
- 03/26 Article: ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it.
- 03/26 Article: A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future
- 3/26 Article: The Troubling Personal Side of Public Surveillance (spoiler: law enforcement agents tracking their domestic partners and exes)
- 02/26 Article: Class action lawsuit alleges Flock license plate readers violate CA law and privacy of residents
- 02/26 Article: Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers
- 06/25 Article: California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol
- 08/25 Article: Flock admits federal immigration agents have direct access to tracking data, despite previous claims
- 02/26 Article: Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage is public record
- 11/25 Article: How Cops Are Using Flock Safety’s ALPR Network to Surveil Protestors and Activists
- 11/25 Article: ’30 seconds with a stick’ | Researchers claim Flock cameras are easy to hack, have significant security vulnerabilities
- 10/25 Article: Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
- 02/26 Information Bulletin: Prohibition on Law Enforcement Cooperating with Other State’s Investigations and Prosecutions of Abortions that are Legal in California
- 10/25 Article: Cites are Fighting Back Against the Law-Breaking Flock License Plate Cameras
- 05/25 Article: ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
- 11/25 Article: Flock Logins Exposed in Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate
- 03/26 Article: Investor group pushing for audit of how Home Depot uses, shares Flock Safety data
- “…Zevin [Asset Management] said there is documented evidence that federal agents have ‘repeatedly accessed Flock network data through local law enforcement intermediaries—in some cases without the knowledge of the local agencies themselves.’”
- 10/22 Article: Kechi police lieutenant arrested for using police technology to stalk wife
- 10/25 Article: Leaving the Door Wide Open: Flock Surveillance Systems Expose Washington Data to Immigration Enforcement
- 05/25 Article: Illinois Cops Gave ICE Access to More Than 5,000 Surveillance Cameras Nationwide
- 09/25 Article: SFPD let Georgia, Texas cops illegally search city surveillance data on behalf of ICE
- 07/25 Article: California cops are breaking surveillance laws. Who’s going to stop them?
- 07/25 Article: When license plate readers get it wrong
- 12/25 Article: Eugene Police confirms Flock camera was turned on after city ordered the cameras to be shut down
- 11/25 Article: Police cameras track billions of license plates per month. Communities are pushing back.
- 03/26 Article: This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going.
- 03/26 Article: Wyden, Lee Davidson and Lofgren Introduce Bill to Reform FISA Section 702, Protect American’s Constitutional Rights and Plug Data Broker Surveillance Loophole
- 03/26 Article: Flock Safety Is Running on Promises, Not Policy
- 3/26 Article: Denver’s proposed license plate reader company has ties to DHS
- 03/26 Forward et al. v. Pacific Retail Capital Partners, LLC Class Action Complaint in California
- 01/26 Article: Flock Decides Cops Can’t Be Trusted with Cop Data
- 11/21 Automated License Plate Readers: A Study in Failure
- 08/22 Article: The Pitfalls of Law Enforcement License Plate Readers in California and Safeguards to Protect the Public
- 09/24 Article: You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public
- Video: We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds
- Video: This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix for Stalkers
- Video: Breaking the Creepy AI in Police Cameras
- Video: City Council Testimony about Flock Security Vulnerabilities