Suffolk County has finalized a five-year, nearly $4 million deal with Flock Safety to replace its ShotSpotter gunshot detection system, covering 23.5 square miles and expected to be fully installed by…
Brentwood city officials are working to remove Flock surveillance cameras installed by the Shadow Lakes Homeowners Association on public streets after acknowledging they mistakenly approved the system…
Flock Safety, facing backlash from communities and civil liberties advocates over its AI-powered license plate readers, announced changes to its privacy and data retention policies on Thursday amid pr…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticized Flock Safety's recent changes to its AI-powered traffic cameras, calling them 'retreads' that fail to address privacy harms. The ACLU urges default…
A new website, HaveIBeenFlocked.com, lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched in the Flock Safety database, which uses AI-powered cameras to log vehicle data. The site compiles…
Meta has filed a patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a system that uses AI facial recognition with its smart glasses to identify people and create media files, according to …
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley, facing backlash over the company's 120,000 license plate reading cameras across 49 states, said in a Bloomberg interview that 'we're not Big Brother' and announced pl…
Flock Safety cofounder Garrett Langley said the company's AI-enabled license plate cameras would have solved the Nancy Guthrie case, claiming 'One hundred percent' and 'There's no doubt in my mind.' F…
Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based operator of 120,000 automatic licence-plate readers across the US, has reduced its recommended default image retention period from 30 days to 7 days and introduced mand…
Flock Safety announced new policies on Thursday to address police abuse of its AI surveillance cameras, following dozens of reported cases including the arrest of three Georgia deputies and the invest…
Flock Safety announced new privacy and accountability controls for its automated license plate reader network on Aug. 13, making its Audit Assistance feature mandatory and requiring case codes for sea…
Flock Safety, which operates over 120,000 automatic license plate reader cameras across 49 states, is rolling out updates that require Audit Assistance and case codes for all searches after reports of…
Flock Safety announced privacy updates on Thursday, including allowing police departments to restrict data access and shortening default data retention to one week, as Bay Area cities split over its l…
Flock Safety, a leading provider of automated license plate readers, announced Thursday it will make mandatory several platform changes by Jan. 1, including an audit tool that locks out users on abnor…
A Wikipedia editor revised the Flock Safety surveillance article to add misuse cases in Milwaukee and Georgia, correct a misquoted student, change a Columbine Valley recording to ring footage, and cit…
Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, offers an integrated ecosystem of hardware and software including solar-powered automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), AI-powered video cameras, acou…
Flock Safety, a surveillance company valued at over $8 billion with about 120,000 license plate reading cameras installed across the United States and contracts with 40 percent of U.S. police departme…
A July 10 audit by the Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General found that the department's automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras generated 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts…
Flock Safety pitched a plan to use 350,000 rideshare and delivery dashcams to scan license plates, according to a report from 404 Media. The proposal, which would involve Uber and Lyft drivers, aims t…
Google's AI Overview is telling users that Flock safety cameras contain 1 to 5 grams of gold and 2 to 23 pounds of copper, citing an anonymous Substack post and an AI-generated Instagram post, despite…