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Every post, grouped by month.

87 posts total

May 2026

Never For General Patrol: Flock's Drone Proposition

2026-05-11

Thornton PD Investigated Itself and Found no Wrongdoing

2026-05-04

We Have to Treat Everyone

2026-05-02

Under Construction: California Class Action Lawsuits

2026-05-02

Welcome to Dunwoody's Virtual Human Zoo

2026-05-01

Front-Loading the Determination: A Response to EFF on ALPR Transparency

2026-05-01

April 2026

Pattern of Life: Why a City Canceled Flock

2026-04-24

These Are Just False

2026-04-23

Flock Quietly Breaks "No Federal Access" Promise

2026-04-23

The Cost of Being Alive: Flock CEO Langley at TED2026

2026-04-18

Flock Dodges Dunwoody Question with Demo Defense

2026-04-17

The Dunwoody Drone Deal

2026-04-14

The More the Logs Change, the More the Oversight Stays the Same

2026-04-08

Within 24 Hours

2026-04-07

Flock Goes Global: How a $7.5 Billion Surveillance Company Found Its International Partner in South Africa's Most Controversial Camera Network

2026-04-05

March 2026

No Permit, No Problem: California Governor Hopeful Chad Bianco's 500+ Unauthorized Surveillance Cameras

2026-03-30

Trust Me, Bro: Flock's Latest Security Blog, Reviewed

2026-03-28

"Flock Wing License(s) Included": How Speed Cameras Became Surveillance Cameras

2026-03-27

The Platform: Flock Safety Is Running on Promises, Not Policy

2026-03-26

Who Is Flock Intelligence?

2026-03-23

You Will Own Nothing: How Flock Safety Keeps Cities From Their Own Surveillance Data

2026-03-22

Virgin Islands Looking for Stolen Cars in Arkansas

2026-03-20

File, Dismiss, Sue, Repeat: The Case for Dismantling Iowa's Public Information Board

2026-03-18

The Column Disappeared. So Did the Explanation.

2026-03-17

Lorem Ipsum Is the Most Honest Thing on Flock's Trust Center

2026-03-16

Flock's Hot Lists are a Hot Mess

2026-03-14

Flock's FreeForm Free-For-All

2026-03-09

The Bill That Hides the Evidence

2026-03-08

Consumer Data Protection: California Plus, Compliance Minus

2026-03-07

Flock Releases Marketing Video, Leaks CJI and Own Address

2026-03-05

New California Report, Old Flock Shenanigans

2026-03-05

Flock vs. FOIA: The Suppression Manual

2026-03-05

Iowa's ALPR Bill Would Make Des Moines the License Plate Data Capital of America

2026-03-03

Flock promises to implement logging feature it claimed existed

2026-03-02

February 2026

Flock's Best Argument: Cops Can't Stop Being Racist Without Us

2026-02-27

The Northern California Fusion Center: A High School Case Study

2026-02-26

Who Watches the Watchers? Not the ACLU.

2026-02-25

Twenty-Eight

2026-02-25

All the Attorney General's Men: As Transparent as a One-Way Mirror

2026-02-24

Eighteen Years of Nightly Lineups

2026-02-23

The Deal has been Altered Further: Flock Publishes New Terms

2026-02-16

Langley Speaks on the Burden of Truth and Minority Report

2026-02-09

The Many Faces of Flock Permits (Part II)

2026-02-06

FOIA Mode: Results and General Availability

2026-02-05

Red Team, Red Flags: Flock's Bishop Fox Engagement Creates Compliance Nightmare

2026-02-02

January 2026

Disproportionate by Default: The Reason Behind the Reason Field

2026-01-26

Public Policy vs. Private Sharing: California Rebuilds the National Network

2026-01-22

FBI Circulates Bulletin: Keep Flock Searches Vague, Punish Transparency

2026-01-17

Florida Sheriff Uses Flock as Lie Detector, Asks County to Suppress Discussion

2026-01-15

Sunlight for the Surveillers: Why I Publish Audit Logs

2026-01-13

Flock's New Pitch: Surveillance or Serial Killers

2026-01-09

Flock's Censorship Gambit Fails at Cloudflare (Part V)

2026-01-08

Two Tales of Real-World Flock Abuse

2026-01-08

Two Colorado cities abandon Flock oversight

2026-01-07

Has Flock Been Hacked? What Their Security Blog Post Doesn't Say

2026-01-06

The 250,000+ Camera "City-Wide" Network

2026-01-04

December 2025

Flock and Cyble: Aligned Values (Part IV)

2025-12-31

Flock Tells Customers to Disable Nationwide Lookup After Public Records Expose Search Activity

2025-12-30

Flock Decides Cops Can't Be Trusted with Cop Data

2025-12-29

Flock and Cyble Inc. Pile on the Allegations with no Evidence in Sight (Part III)

2025-12-29

3,466 Searches, Zero Hits: How Flock Failed an Amber Alert

2025-12-28

"Official Police Business Only" Now Covers City Planning

2025-12-22

Flock is altering the deal. Pray it does not alter it further.

2025-12-22

Flock CEO Claims Watching the Watchers is Unfair and One-Sided

2025-12-19

The "Public Roads" Myth: Why Mass Surveillance Violates the Fourth Amendment

2025-12-18

"License Plate Reader Company Flock Said It Does Not Use Dark Web Data. My Analysis of Their Code Tells a Different Story"

2025-12-17

Flock and Cyble Inc. Continue to File False Notices

2025-12-17

Flock Records Cops, Sends Recordings to Denmark

2025-12-17

Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics

2025-12-16

ACLU and University of Iowa Conduct Case Study in Institutional Contempt

2025-12-12

Flock Blocks VPNs from Transparency Portals

2025-12-12

AMBER Alert: Santa Cruz Logs (Update: Logs Still Missing, Presumed Dead)

2025-12-09

Secret Searches

2025-12-09

Vector State: License Plates for Pedestrians

2025-12-01

November 2025

Federal Insecurity: How Flock Lies to the Feds

2025-11-28

Flock Ships American Surveillance Footage to Offshore Contractors

2025-11-23

The Memory Hole: Flock's Three-Step Plan to Kill Transparency

2025-11-14

"The Burden of Compliance Shouldn't Stand in the Way of Public Safety"

2025-11-11

The Data-Sharing Shell Game: Flock, RISS, and the Federal Surveillance Backdoor

2025-11-11

Too Much, Too Late: A Digital Dragnet for a Homicide

2025-11-08

157 Pages of Evidence, 200 Jurisdictions, Zero Oversight

2025-11-08

All the Chief's Men: How Coralville's Flock Contract Bypassed Oversight

2025-11-06

The Many Faces of Flock Permits

2025-11-04

Johnson County, Iowa, Sheriff Botches $98,900 Tiffin Surveillance Deal

2025-11-03

Transparency Portals

2025-11-03

The Flock Camera Data Does Not Enable an Individual to "Infer"

2025-11-02

Washington Cities Seek to Prevent APLR Abuse by Ending Transparency

2025-11-02