Flock adds safeguards to licence-plate readers after wa | Nonstop NewsWave #Shorts

Our Take

Credit to Nonstop NewsWave's Ziggy & Nova for putting this on the radar in their fast-hit format: Flock Safety is reportedly rolling out new safeguards after multiple stalking cases tied to its license-plate reader network came to light. That's a meaningful admission — it means the company's own audit trails have already caught employees, cops, or partner agencies misusing ALPR data to track people for personal reasons, not public safety.

Here's the problem with 'safeguards' as a fix: they're policies layered on top of a surveillance architecture that was never built with restraint in mind. Flock cameras log every passing vehicle, timestamp it, and store it in a searchable database that thousands of agencies and, by extension, countless individual users can query. A new access rule or audit flag doesn't change the fundamental fact that this is a mass-surveillance system first and a crime-solving tool second. Stalking cases are what happens when that system works exactly as designed, just pointed at the wrong target.

We'll keep tracking how far these 'safeguards' actually go, and whether they're enforced or just PR. In the meantime, check our camera map to see what's watching your own neighborhood, and hit up our take-action page if you want to push back on ALPR deployments near you.