Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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141 incidents closest to “Flock FreeForm” · matched on meaning · public reporting
Flock Safety's license plate reader network allowed a former sheriff's deputy to search one woman's license plate location history 1,639 times without a warrant.
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The system recorded and tracked the locations of vehicles and their owners without consent.
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A Flock camera recorded Lindsey Isaacs's black Dodge Durango near a fatal crash, and the lead contributed to her being arrested and jailed for 13 days for vehicular homicide.
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Flock Safety camera misread a license plate character, triggering a stolen vehicle alert that led Toledo police to conduct a felony traffic stop without verification, during which an innocent driver was bitten by a police dog, injured, and wrongfully arrested.
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The Flock camera system tracked the ex-girlfriend's vehicle license plate over 1,000 times, enabling the officer to stalk and harass her.
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The ALPR system allowed a deputy to track a woman's vehicle movements without legitimate law enforcement purpose.
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The Flock Safety system captured license plate, time, location, vehicle make and model, and made drivers' movements searchable by law enforcement in Waukesha County and beyond without a warrant.
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Automated license plate readers tracked the locations of individuals, enabling deputies to stalk them without their knowledge.
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Police surrounded a couple's home and pointed guns at them after a Flock camera lead incorrectly associated their vehicle with a crime.
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License plate reader system used for non-law enforcement purposes
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The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust published an audit into its use of the Streams app, following an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in July 2017. The Streams app alerts clinicians to patients at risk of acute kidney injury. The audit, conducted by Linklaters, concluded that the trust's use of Streams was lawful and complied with data protection laws, although areas for improvement were identified. The ICO later recognised that the trust had completed all required actions.
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Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proposed the Ban Flock Act, alleging that Flock Safety's license plate reader cameras are eroding privacy. The system is used by law enforcement agencies to track vehicles. The proposed legislation aims to prohibit the use of such cameras.
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Unauthorized access to license plate data of ex-girlfriend and four other individuals
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The system misidentified her vehicle as being involved in a crime, leading to her arrest and placement in solitary confinement.
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Mike Hall, owner of a small digital photo gallery, had images of wildlife, landscapes and buildings blocked by Facebook's ad system for supposedly containing 'overtly sexual' content, including a photo of a cow. Hall appealed but received no response until the BBC contacted Facebook, after which the ads were reinstated and Facebook apologised, citing a technical error.
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A judge ruled that a police search using Flock's automated license plate readers constituted a form of mass surveillance. The ruling concerns the deployment of the AI-based camera system by law enforcement, which the court found to be an invasive surveillance practice. No further details of the case were provided in the article.
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The officer used the Flock camera system to access location data of coworkers without authorization.
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The system flagged Alek Schott's vehicle as suspicious, leading to a traffic stop, interrogation, and search.
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The Flock cameras captured and stored license plate data of vehicles, affecting residents' privacy.
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The Flock license-plate reader system collected and provided vehicle location data to the MPD for use in an internal affairs misconduct investigation, potentially affecting police officers.
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Bloomberg has reported that Adobe's Firefly image generator was trained using thousands of images from competitor Midjourney. Adobe says these made up about 5% of the training data and were part of the Adobe Stock library. The company has marketed Firefly as ethically trained and offered enterprise customers indemnity against copyright claims. Adobe responded that all Adobe Stock images undergo moderation, but the report has raised questions about Firefly's copyright safety.
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Whiteside County deputy under investigation for possible Flock camera misuse WQAD
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Adobe Stock contributors allege that Adobe trained its Firefly generative AI model on their stock images without express notification or consent. They say Firefly's popularity is reducing demand for their stock photos and flooding the platform with AI-generated images. Adobe says Firefly is still in beta and it is committed to compensating creators, with details to come when generally available.
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The system allowed unauthorized tracking of individuals' vehicles through license plate recognition, affecting five subjects including an ex-girlfriend who was searched 3,000 times.
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