{"slug": "flock-tries-to-quell-surveillance-fears-as-questions-pile-up", "title": "Flock tries to quell surveillance fears as questions pile up", "summary": "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 privacy lawsuits and terminated contracts.", "body_md": "Flock Safety is facing a growing backlash across the country from communities and civil liberties advocates concerned over the surveillance technology company’s network of AI-powered license plate readers. Amid a wave of privacy lawsuits and terminated contracts, Flock announced changes to its privacy and data retention policies Thursday in an attempt to quell concerns around mass surveillance and misuse…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-tries-to-quell-surveillance-fears-as-questions-pile-up", "canonical_source": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6030740-civil-liberties-backlash-ai-surveillance/", "published_at": "2026-08-16 21:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-16 21:40:49.079593+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Flock Safety"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-tries-to-quell-surveillance-fears-as-questions-pile-up", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-tries-to-quell-surveillance-fears-as-questions-pile-up.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-tries-to-quell-surveillance-fears-as-questions-pile-up.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-tries-to-quell-surveillance-fears-as-questions-pile-up.jsonld"}}