Feature: See the Records Behind a Mismatch

Two days ago we started flagging audit-log entries that disagree with their duplicates. That post noted a limitation: only the names of the differing fields were shown, and the conflicting values themselves stayed hidden — available only in the Irregular Records report.

That limitation is now gone. The mismatch badge is clickable everywhere it appears — text search, the record reports, and the home license-plate lookup. Selecting it opens the full group of records submitted for that search, side by side, with the conflicting values highlighted.

#What the group view shows

Each search that Flock’s “tamperproof” logs describe more than once produces a group: the base record, followed by every sibling that disagrees with it. The view lists all of them so you can compare the conflicting fields directly rather than inferring them from a list of field names.

• The base record is shown first, then each conflicting record.
• Fields that differ between records are highlighted in place.
• Redacted or empty fields — shown as *** or REDACTED — are treated as redaction, not as a disagreement, and are not highlighted.
• A link to the full Irregular Records report is provided for the complete, filterable picture.

The mismatch data is still refreshed nightly, so entries added since the last refresh may not yet be flagged.

#Irregular Records report improvements

The Irregular Records report itself also got two fixes.

• Category counts now cover the whole dataset. The tab counts (Name Mismatch, Organization Mismatch, Reason Mismatch, Timeframe Mismatch, Device Count Mismatch, Other) previously reflected only the records loaded into the page so far. They now report totals across the entire dataset. While those totals are still loading, the count shows the number loaded so far with a trailing +.
• Pagination shows the real size of the report. The “Page x of y” indicator now estimates the total number of pages for the active tab, instead of counting only the batch already loaded. Large totals are rounded (~98k, ~1.2m) to stay readable.

#Also shipped

Alongside the above, we also landed some behind-the-scenes work: query-performance optimizations for the Irregular Records report, mobile usability fixes, and clarity edits to copy across a number of pages.

As always, reach out to humans@haveibeenflocked.com with any questions or concerns.