At least 53 municipalities have canceled contracts with surveillance company Flock Safety over concerns about federal access to data from its AI-integrated automatic license plate readers, according t…
Roughly 90,000 Flock Falcon cameras have been quietly installed across the US, tracking vehicles using AI-powered license plate recognition and machine learning, often without public discussion or con…
Flock Safety's license plate recognition cameras wrongly flagged a journalist's vehicle as stolen due to a partial plate match, leading to his arrest, and the company's CEO apologized for calling priv…
Flock has canceled its audio surveillance pilot program that used always-on microphones to detect human screams, following widespread public backlash and vandalism of its cameras. The Electronic Front…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley apologized for calling privacy activists who track the company's cameras a "terroristic organization," telling Forbes his comments were a mistake. The apology comes af…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley apologized for calling activist group DeFlock a 'terroristic organization,' saying 'my comments were a mistake and I apologize' as the $8.3 billion surveillance compan…
Public backlash against Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion startup making AI-powered license plate-scanning cameras, has intensified, with the LAPD allowing its three-year contract to expire and other citie…
A series of errors between Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate recognition system and law enforcement led to auto journalist Kevin Williams being wrongfully detained for days and ambushed by polic…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) draws parallels between Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 video game and real-world digital rights issues, noting that the game's 2016 depiction of hacktivists fighting s…
Hundreds of US cities that adopted Flock Safety's AI license plate detection cameras are now canceling contracts amid privacy concerns and data-sharing with ICE, according to experts and the ACLU. A U…
Redditors on the subreddit r/FlockSurveillance, which hosts 422,000 activists and over 11,000 weekly contributions, are celebrating the vandalism of Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers with…
The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its contract with Flock Safety after an audit found the company's AI-powered license plate cameras generated 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in two months, …
An AI-assisted license plate recognition system from Flock Safety wrongly flagged a journalist's test-drive vehicle as stolen, leading to an armed police stop in Minnesota. The error was caused by a d…
Bay Area municipalities including Mountain View, Santa Clara County and El Cerrito have canceled or changed contracts for automatic license plate readers amid growing public privacy concerns, signalin…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called critics of the company's automated license-plate reader network 'terroristic' in a July 9, 2026 report, escalating a privacy backlash that has led at least 30 l…
Home security camera owners must navigate a patchwork of state and federal laws governing audio and video recording. Video surveillance is generally legal in public areas like living rooms but illegal…
Automated license plate readers in the U.S. now scan 20 billion vehicles monthly, with over 100,000 cameras nationwide, mostly from Flock Safety. Cities are beginning to disconnect the systems amid pr…
TikTok creator Plonk is teaching viewers how to blind AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety, a network used by roughly one-third of U.S. law enforcement agencies. His satirical videos prom…
Flock Safety's surveillance cameras, including AI-powered license plate readers and audio-detection poles, are rapidly spreading across the US, logging every car and enabling law enforcement to search…
A Virginia woman discovered a Flock Safety Raven audio surveillance device installed in her front yard without notice, despite the city's approval of 75 such sensors not including her property. The Ro…