Flock Safety Loses Credibility After Repeated Lies to City Councils and Police
Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
We document how Flock Safety repeatedly misled city councils, police departments, and the public about its automatic license plate reader capabilities. From denying heat map tracking in Oshkosh to falsely claiming no federal data sharing, the company's pattern of deception undermines trust. Even their claims of partnering with the ACLU are fabrications, proving that government officials cannot rely on Flock's statements regarding privacy or safety.
I don't know how this body can govern if someone tells untruths, mistruths, exaggerated truths.
- pclowes
People always want high trust societies. They are incredibly hard to create and incredibly easy to destroy.
However, once the cameras go up, you will never ever create one there. High trust requires, well, actual trust. You can’t build real trust in a panopticon just a sickly police state facsimile of it.
Society and progress moves at the speed of trust. Without it many uniquely human and beautiful things disappear.
- SXX
What we really need is to journalists and cybersecurity community to use these systems to track few hundred of politicians and publish the results. Just like some crooked cops already used it to stalk their exes.
We know how much some billionares hate their jets tracked even though they have small army of bodyguards and three letter agencies spending budget of small country protecting them.
Lets see how comfortable much less protected US politicians gonna be with a fact that everyone knows what time they leave their house by minute, what routes they take and where their cars gonna be.
- graywh
they (and others like them) also make zero effort to install poles complying with highway safety standards
- t1234s
I doubt the surveillance state is going away any time soon.
- user00005
Flock Safety building.
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- abhinai
I respect ACLU but this article seems a fair bit biased. They're stretching the imagination quite a bit in some of their examples. Seems to me that someone has already made up their mind and are now looking for any example to support their narrative.
I'd love for them to build a case more impartially and drop the activist nature of the language they use.
- spiderfarmer
Were they ever credible?
- cute_boi
How come we allowed all these cronies to put camera and do surveillance. Any politician advocating this should have cameras in their home for safety reason.