Some Flock cameras in Eugene may have been online several weeks after the city ordered them to be turned off.
Author: DeFlock Lynnwood
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AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents – Futurism
What does it take to become the most successful AI surveillance company in 2025? If you’re anything like Flock, the startup selling automatic license plate readers and facial recognition tech to cops, you don’t really need much AI at all — just an army of sweatshop workers in the global south.
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Mountlake Terrace cancels Flock Safety contract – Herald Net
EVERETT — The Mountlake Terrace City Council unanimously voted to end the city’s contract with Flock Safety on Thursday, citing community division and public records concerns.
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City of Olympia to put ‘hoods’ over Flock cameras before ultimate removal – King5
At a city council study session Tuesday, members moved to render the city’s 15 active Flock Safety cameras functionless using “protective hoods.”
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Eugene cancels contract with Flock cameras over privacy, data concerns – Yahoo
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Eugene has officially cancelled its contract with Flock Safety cameras, the latest in a line of Oregon cities getting rid of the license-plate-detecting technology.
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Springfield Police to cover, remove Flock license plate cameras after security concerns – NBC16
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — The Springfield Police Department said Friday it will cover all Flock automatic license plate recognition cameras in the city in the coming days as it prepares to remove them.
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San Marcos becomes latest Central Texas city to cut ties with Flock cameras – KXAN
SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) – The San Marcos City Council decided this week not to move forward with its contract with Flock Safety – the controversial company that produces automated license plate readers, or LPRs.
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Flock Safety cameras used to monitor protesters, rights group finds – The Record
Police departments across the country searched records from a national network of automated license plate reader cameras hundreds of times over the last year to track protest activity, according to new research from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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The Technical and Ethical Failure of Mass Surveillance in Lynnwood – Lynnwood Times
As someone who takes privacy and the 4th Amendment seriously, I have grave misgivings about the surveillance contract Lynnwood has with Flock. In what LPD claims was a misconfiguration, they exposed this surveillance database to outside agencies, which used it for immigration-related searches. This is contrary to explicit promises made to the Lynnwood City Council. As a Systems Engineer, I find this excuse highly concerning. A ‘checkbox error’ that violates state law and civil rights isn’t a glitch; it’s a failure of governance and architecture.
Read all about it here.