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🔗 'Not real': Flock CEO claims criticism of surveillance firm comes from bots, not people
🔗 Flock CEO says its microphones detect 'just gunshots' — its website says different Audio Surveillance
🔗 Would Wausau pay for Flock cameras the council defunds? Chief says maybe. Contract says no. WI
Wausau
🔗 Flock's CEO claims its tech "solved" 1 million crimes last year. The company's own methodology undercuts that claim Doesn't Work
🔗 Pinal County sheriff accuses Flock of 'dishonesty' about its cameras AZ
Pinal County
Pushback
"A company representative told him the newer cameras don't take photos at high enough resolution to identify individuals, he said, but once he saw images from the newer cameras, he could recognize faces.
Teeple said that when he asked if the newer cameras used AI, the company said no.
After learning later that Flock's system does use AI to connect images from its camera network and "create a digital fingerprint of your vehicle," he reached out again. This time, a representative told him he had not asked about the right kind of AI."
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🔗 How Flock is trying to take credit for the post-pandemic crime drop
🔗 Flock Safety Faces New Questions After Lawmakers Spot Alleged 'History' of Contradictions WV
🔗 Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as 'Made in the USA.' Now It's Not So Clear
🔗 How Flock Paid Researchers to Do a Bogus Study Research
🔗 West Virginia lawmakers criticize Flock Safety over misleading testimony WV
Statewide
🔗 Flock insists it never released its distress detection feature, but a police department says it had it CO
Commerce City
Audio Surveillance
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🔗 Surprise, Surprise: Flock Cameras Are Collecting More Than Just Your Plate And Car Information Scope Creep
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🔗 Denver mayor touts Flock cameras for solving a case that isn't solved CO
Denver
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🔗 Denver mayor's comments on Flock not factual, according to study CO
Denver
🔗 FULL INTERVIEW: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on extending city's Flock camera contract CO
Denver
Notes: Claims Denver gets $100,000 per violation from Flock. Falsely claims Flock cameras solved the murder of a trans woman; the murder is not solved.
🔗 Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation TX
Analysis
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Reproductive Rights
"That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury."
🔗 Flock admits federal immigration agents have direct access to tracking data, despite previous claims CO
Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 Studies Show Flock's ALPRs Reduce Crime… So Long As Flock Controls The Inputs And The Methodology
🔗 Let's Talk About the Flock Study That Says It Solves Crime "The information that is collected by the police departments are too varied and incomplete for us to do any type of meaningful statistical analysis on them."
Notes: A researcher named on the Flock study that claims to show it solves crime has concerns about the methodology and findings.
🔗 Flock Installed AI Cameras In This Small City And Claimed Crime Went Down. It Went Up. CA
San Marino
Notes: Article goes through several of Flock's exaggerated claims of crime reductions, including rebuttal from researchers.
🔗 This $4 Billion Car Surveillance Startup Says It Cuts Crime. But It Likely Broke The Law. Flocked Up
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"Company communications with state transportation agencies obtained via public records requests, and interviews with more than half a dozen former employees, suggest that in its rush to install surveillance cameras in the absence of clear regulatory frameworks, Flock repeatedly broke the law in at least five states."
