Flock promised a Bishop Fox report in September. It published a summary saying no customer data was accessed. Three days later, its lawyers said confidential customer data had been taken.
The official line is that HIDTA is a grant program, not an agency. Reality is more complicated.
Six of the eleven senators set to grill Flock's CEO on September 23 are cosponsoring a bill that would fund more surveillance and put a new ICE-led intelligence center in charge of sharing it.
Flock updated its terms again. It violated them before the ink was dry.
A draft article by Orin Kerr maps three Chatrie tests. When applied to ALPR, they kill real-time crime centers.
In three weeks, twenty agencies in fifteen states talked about "misinformation" and "accountability", following Flock's playbook. Let's compare the logs.
It has been six months since Flock engaged Bishop Fox and promised the results of security audits would be "communicated transparently." To date, no security issues have been fixed, and no results have been communicated.
Flock's 911 product binds police agencies to terms hosted on prepared911.com and assigns ownership of your 911 calls to its competitor, Axon.
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