{"slug": "podcast-flock-is-tracking-people-not-just-cars", "title": "Podcast: Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars", "summary": "A podcast episode reveals that police are using Flock surveillance technology to track people, not just vehicles, with searches like 'male with tattoos.' The episode also covers a company selling books to AI companies in secret, and a subscribers-only segment on the Suno hack.", "body_md": "We start this week with Joseph’s story on how cops are using Flock to track actual people, not just cars, with searches like “male with tattoos.” After the break, Emanuel tells us all about the company that is explicitly selling mountains of books to AI companies and promising to keep the sales a secret. In the subscribers-only section, Jason tells us how he learned about the Suno hack and what it showed us.\n\nListen to the weekly podcast on __Apple Podcasts____,__** **[ Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/0F3oY47l2XgoBMaAmIaw29?ref=404media.co), or\n\n[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@404Mediaco/videos?ref=404media.co). Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism.\n\n**If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player.**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/podcast-flock-is-tracking-people-not-just-cars", "canonical_source": "https://www.404media.co/podcast-flock-is-tracking-people-not-just-cars/", "published_at": "2026-07-22 13:56:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 14:02:44.059984+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Flock", "Apple Podcasts", "Spotify", "YouTube", "Transistor", "Suno"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/podcast-flock-is-tracking-people-not-just-cars", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/podcast-flock-is-tracking-people-not-just-cars.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/podcast-flock-is-tracking-people-not-just-cars.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/podcast-flock-is-tracking-people-not-just-cars.jsonld"}}