Utah politicians are grappling with public backlash over Flock surveillance cameras and the Stratos data center project, which have become key political issues. Frank Cowley argues that Flock's AI-pow…
A new analysis warns that the U.S. is sleepwalking into an AI surveillance dystopia, where existing technology could enable mass surveillance and preemptive arrests of protesters. The piece, drawing o…
Flock cameras have become a top midterm campaign issue, with Democratic candidates and members of Congress leveraging grassroots anger over the AI-powered license plate readers. Abdul El-Sayed, the De…
Flock, the police surveillance company, has secretly built a prompt-based AI tool that can identify drivers and track vehicles by movement patterns, according to a WIRED investigation. The system, sti…
Start-up noRecognition, founded by cybersecurity researcher Bill Swearingen, has proposed using its anti-AI computer-generated patterns as vehicle wraps to hide cars from Flock's AI-powered automatic …
Police have wrongfully arrested individuals based on faulty AI-assisted Flock surveillance footage, as documented by Reason Magazine, with one woman spending seven months in legal battles after being …
A new poll finds Arizona voters are increasingly opposed to Flock cameras, despite believing the AI-powered license plate readers help police, with 62% expressing disapproval of their use. The survey,…
Hacker Bill Swearingen turned 31 million surveillance-evasion trials into a line of privacy-first clothing, letting wearers slip past facial-recognition cameras without a trace. The noRecognition proj…
Apple's macOS 27 Release Candidate leaked footage reveals camera-enabled AirPods using Visual Intelligence, allowing users to ask Siri to analyze objects and save information. The leak, uncovered by A…
Flock, the police-tech company operating about 120,000 automatic license plate readers across the US, announced changes to its platform on August 13, 2026, to prevent misuse after the Washington Post …
Axios reports that activists and citizens across the political spectrum are pushing back against license plate readers made by Flock and similar companies, fueled by privacy concerns and suspected pol…
The Wall Street Journal reports that public opposition to artificial intelligence is growing across the U.S., with Flock cameras and data centers becoming unwelcome in several communities. On Thursday…
Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project generates adversarial patterns that defeated all 11 open-source detection algorithms he tested, including software behind Flock license plate readers, Axon body…
Mark Zuckerberg's plan for Meta's AI agents, described as 'superintelligent,' is the focus of a 404 Media podcast episode, with the hosts noting the agents 'don't sound fun at all.' The episode also c…
A new crowdfunded clothing brand called noRecognition, founded by former chief intelligence officer Bill Swearingen, claims its garments feature patterns that can scramble 11 computer vision models, b…
Flock, the controversial surveillance company, pitched a plan to turn Uber and Lyft drivers into a network of roaming surveillance vehicles by using their dashcams to scan license plates, according to…
Crime fiction writers are struggling to keep their stories plausible amid the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras and data brokers, with authors like Samantha Downing and Mark Coggins ada…
Several U.S. cities have removed Flock's automatic license plate reader cameras and replaced them with Axon's ALPR systems, which include AI-powered streetlamp cameras and patrol vehicle cameras, acco…
Google's AI Overview briefly told users that Flock cameras contain up to 5 grams of gold and 23 pounds of copper, a hallucination based on a viral joke, according to a Futurism report. The incorrect i…
Jonathan Paz, a former government affairs manager at Flock, quit the company in July 2025, alleging it lied about its AI-powered license-plate cameras' use and silenced critics. Paz said Flock gave IC…