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Surveillance company Flock moves to increase oversight after police misuse
NBC News • • nation
Key Points:
- Flock Safety announced new privacy safeguards, including reducing default data retention from one month to one week and requiring case numbers for extended data storage.
- The company will implement an Audit Assistance system to detect and lock out users exhibiting abnormal search activity, aiming to prevent police misuse of data.
- Despite these changes, the American Civil Liberties Union criticized Flock for continuing mass surveillance through its extensive automated license plate reader network.
- Flock’s technology is widely used by law enforcement without warrant requirements, allowing broad access and sharing of vehicle movement data across jurisdictions.
- Privacy advocates remain concerned that the system enables invasive tracking of innocent Americans and disproportionately impacts vulnerable communities.
