The Flock backlash keeps widening, from statehouses to city councils to the company's own CEO. Whether it's funding cuts, tighter oversight, or public skepticism, the message is the same: mass camera surveillance needs guardrails, not a blank check.
- Fassuliotis: A Camera on Every Car Is Not the Same as Community Policing Greenwich Free Press
A councilman gets it right: blanketing every road with cameras isn't policing, it's outsourcing trust to a database.
- Oviedo City Council to question Flock over license-plate reader program WESH
Good—elected officials should demand answers before rubber-stamping a surveillance contract, not after residents start asking questions.
- Texas blocks funding for Flock as backlash grows against AI surveillance cameras Mashable
When a red state starts pulling funding over privacy concerns, that's not partisan noise, that's a signal something's broken.
- Grand Rapids announces new oversight rules for police license plate reader cameras FOX 17 West Michigan News
New rules are a start, but oversight only matters if it's enforced and the public can actually see it happening.
- Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine Neowin
Nothing exposes the risks of surveillance tech faster than watching its own architect get surveilled without consent.
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