Flock cameras are used across thousands of US cities to track vehicles and help police solve crimes. But the network is facing growing backlash over privacy concerns, and some cities are pulling the plug. Read my latest for @bloomberg.com (gift link!) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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• Micah Barkley

  Flock cameras are used across thousands of US cities to track vehicles and help police solve crimes. But the network is facing growing backlash over privacy concerns, and some cities are pulling the plug. Read my latest for @bloomberg.com (gift link!) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
• The Washington Post left

  More than 130,000 Flock cameras now dot the country, according to the crowdsourced tracker DeFlock. They have been shot, spray-painted and cut down as how-to videos spread online. “People are fed up,” one suspect said.
• Bloomberg News center

  Cities are installing Flock cameras in their towns to help police combat crime. Some people say the devices are creating an environment of mass surveillance
• WIRED left

  Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
• Dhruv Mehrotra

  NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social