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Flock Blinks: Surveillance Giant Slashes Data Retention After 50 Jurisdictions Walk, Cams Destroyed
Flock Blinks: Surveillance Giant Slashes Data Retention After 50 Jurisdictions Walk, Cams Destroyed
Flock Safety, the startup that blanketed America in automated license plate readers (ALPRs), announced Thursday that it is dialing back its expansive platform. The company is significantly shortening its data retention windows, requiring police to justify every search, and allowing cities to block neighboring jurisdictions from querying their cameras for immigration enforcement.
Not even (paid?) damage control by Bari Weiss' The Free Press could salvage the situation.
Today I found out that the person behind this pro-Flock propaganda piece...
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