Flock Offers Buyouts as Cities Cancel License Plate Reader Contracts
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
Flock Safety is offering voluntary severance to employees as dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, WIRED has learned. The buyouts come amid mounting backlash over the surveillance technology, which has faced privacy concerns and high-profile hacks. The company's customer losses signal growing resistance to automated license plate recognition systems.
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
- Barbing
Flock seeks to shed whistleblowers via financially-motivated self selection
> And we just want people to be safe.
We’d all be safer if we were in jail (sorry to give the clown ideas)
- noworriesnate
Why are they doing this when they're hiring:
- steve-atx-7600
My city right outside Austin scrapped it. Its even split between red and blue voters and support for abandoning flock was overwhelmingly in favor of abandoning. Makes me feel good to see others banding together for positive change in today’s political climate in the USA….even if the motivation comes from self interest (too used to “get your government hands off of my medicaid/care” deluded thinking).
- babelfish
- 0x737368
I wonder if something similar will happen to Palantir et al.