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Persistent surveillance stories at Techdirt.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (683+ words) Flock’s ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring…...
Flock Once Tried To Turn Every Ride Share Driver Into Part Of Its ALPR Network
2+ week, 5+ day ago (322+ words) Until just recently, Flock never felt it needed to rehabilitate its image, even when several cities were dumping contracts and cameras over persistent surveillance concerns. When cities shut down systems, Flock just kept running. In some cases, it even installed…...
ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants
1+ week, 3+ day ago (544+ words) This was inevitable. ICE has billions of new money to spend, zero shame, and not a single adult in a leadership position capable (or willing!) to talk the agency off the ledge. ICE decided the neat new tool of cruelty…...
Area (Atlantic) Columnist Decides *Now* Is The Time To Start Defending Flock Safety
3+ week, 3+ day ago (713+ words) Flock’s ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring…...
Flock-Stalking, Nazi-Saluting Deputy Given Top Cop Honors Before Hastily Retiring Ahead Of Criminal Charges
1+ week, 4+ day ago (685+ words) And so it seemed to go for Deputy Michael Fultz of the Brevard County, Florida Sheriff’s Department. Fultz got on-boarded and almost immediately celebrated as one of the best. Here’s that celebration, which is surrounded by dozens of reasons he…...
Flock Safety Decides To Implement A Few Changes After Months Of Negative Press
3+ week, 5+ day ago (796+ words) Pretending it’s not responsible for abuse of its equipment/databases hasn’t worked out well for Flock. In addition to drawing heat from US senators, the company has lost a lot of its plausible deniability because it has done nothing to…...
Pete Hegseth And His Department Of Unconstitutional Revenge Lose Again In California
2+ week, 1+ day ago (377+ words) When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldn’t agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what Claude should be able to do, Anthropic sued to challenge the directives. One of the challenges was brought in the…...
Cop Shops Keep On Dropping Flock Like It’s Hot
1+ week, 2+ day ago (631+ words) You have to know you’re fucking up when your largest and best-paying customer base is increasingly noping out of contract renewals. That more than anything is probably what provoked ALPR maker Flock Safety to start implementing a few guardrails for…...
Border Czar Tom Homan Says The Glove Tasering Will Continue Until Morale Improves
2+ week, 6+ day ago (838+ words) We’ve moved into a new era where the administration’s constant cruelty, violence, and actual murders simply aren’t enough to keep Trump appeased or entertained. ICE is now goosing its arrest numbers by arresting holders of expired visas at domestic airports....
School Asks Cops To Stop Using Stun Gloves On Its Students
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1020+ words) Compliant Technologies probably would have preferred to keep flying under the radar. But a gaudy new no-bid contract with ICE (worth up to $20 million!) made it impossible. Prior to ICE’s big purchase, it may as well have never existed. It…...