LIVE | Lawsuit cancer misdiagnosis led to unnecessary hysterectomy & students return to class
The short version: A FOX 5 Atlanta roundup covers a medical malpractice suit, school reopenings, a child abuse arrest, a water utility cyberattack, and the Clancy trial — none of it is ALPR territory.
Our Take
We'll be straight with readers: this FOX 5 Atlanta noon roundup, credit to their newsroom for the live coverage, doesn't touch license plate readers or Flock Safety cameras. It's a mixed bag of local news — a devastating malpractice lawsuit, the first day of school in Gwinnett County, a brutal child injury case, trial updates out of Massachusetts, and a cybersecurity incident at the Clayton County Water Authority.
That last item is the only thread worth tugging on from our beat. Water utilities, school districts, and police departments are all sitting on growing piles of networked data and camera feeds, and when one gets breached, it's a reminder that every agency bolting a new sensor or database onto its network is expanding the attack surface along with the surveillance footprint. ALPR networks are no exception — Flock's cloud-connected camera systems store months of driving history on ordinary people, and that data has to live somewhere, protected by somebody.
If today's news cycle has you thinking about how much of your local infrastructure quietly collects and stores data on you, that's exactly the conversation we try to keep going here. Check our map to see what's already been installed near you, and head to take-action if you want to push back on it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of FOX 5 Atlanta, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.