Flock Safety’s New Privacy Rules May not be Enough Part 3

Our Take

Credit to RedLightNews for sticking with this story across multiple parts, because that's exactly the kind of scrutiny Flock Safety hopes people get bored of before the third installment. Every time the company rolls out a new policy tweak, it gets treated like breaking news of accountability. In reality, a company memo is not a law, not a court order, and not something a city council or a defense attorney can actually enforce. Policies can be quietly rewritten the next time the political winds shift or a new contract gets signed.

That's the core problem with 'trust us, we updated our privacy rules' as a response to a nationwide license plate surveillance network. The cameras are still reading every plate that passes, still logging travel patterns, still sitting in a searchable database that police departments across state lines can query. A voluntary rule about who's allowed to look at the data doesn't change the fact that the data exists in the first place, indefinitely, on all of us, regardless of suspicion.

If this is now the third round of 'new rules that may not be enough,' that's a pattern worth paying attention to, not a reason to relax. Go check our camera map to see how far this network already reaches near you, and if you want to push back where it actually counts, hit our take-action page.