Flock Safety mandates guardrails to curb abuse of its license-plate network
TL;DR
Flock Safety will require customers to enable new safety features that audit officer activity, automatically suspend abnormal behavior, and restrict which agencies can share or access scans; retention will drop from 30 days to seven days unless extended for investigations, as concerns about misuse and privacy drive lawsuits and a wave of cities to rethink or drop contracts.
- Flock Safety tries to curb police abuse of its surveillance cameras after scandals The Guardian
- Flock unveils changes after Post report on police misuse of vast camera network The Washington Post
- Flock Updates Privacy, Accountability, Security, and Transparency Safeguards Flock Safety
- Flock CEO apologizes for cases where surveillance technology was abused as company rolls out changes cbsnews.com
- Behind the scenes of WCYB: what it takes to put on a newscast WCYB
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