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19 August 2026

Police surveillance tool Flock announces safeguards against officer misuse

First reported

MIT Technology Review ran this on , 2 days before the next source picked it up.

  • Flock, which operates 120,000 license plate readers nationwide, added requirements like case numbers and abnormal search flags to prevent officers from misusing the system.
  • The Washington Post documented 50 cases where officers abused Flock and competing systems to stalk women, including one Wisconsin officer who searched for his ex-girlfriend 179 times.

How it was covered

The Algorithm

Reported by MIT Technology Review