Your browser probably knows all your uncomfortable secrets. That’s the price of having a free browser, unfortunately, and while there are things you can do to limit the privacy invasion…those things come at the cost of a lot of convenience.
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Consumer activist Mark Rossen posted a scary expose on Flock. Much of it repeats what’s already been said here, but it’s a good rundown on the dangers of Flock.
Pinal County’s contract with Flock Safety expires at the end of next month. Sheriff Ross Teeple just informed the Board of Supervisors he will not be renewing.
From their FaceBook page.
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I owe you an answer. I am working on it.
Right now the best thing about flock is the civil disobedience it is causing. We will need the law breakers when they strip us of the legal ability to remove them from power.
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If only we could develop a process to determine whether such invasive searches were warranted… then maybe we could avoid this sort of misuse.
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Flock is scrambling
“Hindsight tends to be very clear,” [Flock CEO Langley] said. “And I think, of course, we could have done more earlier, and we listen, and we learn, and we’ll continue to move forward because until everyone has an equal level of safety in this country, we have work to do […] It gets to this issue that when you are given power, which many people are, particularly in law enforcement, you should have higher standards of accountability,” Langley said. “And so, I don’t think that Flock created police abuse. I think we’re the first company to ever shine a light on it and build the tools to find it.”
- CEO of stalking tool, explaining that the tool is responsible for catching stalkers because they used the tool
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Seems similar to the “guns don’t kill people” defense.
T & P to those who have been stalked, I suppose
Though stalking tool is probably closer to violating a constitutional amendment right than guns are.
But I see the point you are trying to make.
My town has taken down the one flock camera, “amidst changed landscape”. (Aka, citizens complained.) But the police have several other licence plate readers they use, just, you know, different brands.
There are mobile LPR’s that police use in their vehicles that are basically doing what cops do but do it significantly faster.
Though, I have seen some articles indicating agencies changing from Flock Security to Axon. I’m not sure the differences between the systems but Axon seems to be less interconnected.
Interesting note from a FB post on local Flock Data they received: There were a total of 1,608,828 total searches with 22,172 or 1.378% coming from UT agencies.
In 2026 so far Houston Police department has searched WEBER COUNTY Flock cameras 423,021 times, while Weber County, who rents the cameras from a Surveillance Landlord only searched them 571 times. This year, 98.62% of all searches via Flock cameras in Weber have been out-of-state agencies.
“We have given too much money to our libraries, too much money to our parks; we need (San Diego Police) to have more money, more money for the Emperor to rule over the entire universe,” he said.
“We do not need parks. We do not need libraries. We do not need daycare centers. We do not need homeless shelters. All we need is money for our Storm Troopers,” he continued.
“We will not succumb to the forces of Democratic will. No, this council was elected to serve the police, not the public, and if our Storm Troopers don’t receive all the funding that they deserve, there will be hell to pay with the Emperor, and he is not as forgiving as I,” he finished, before sitting down and awaiting his second time at the microphone.
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I love it!