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140 incidents closest to “Flock Group Inc. (d/b/a Flock Safety)” · matched on meaning · public reporting
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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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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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 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took action against IntelliVision Technologies Corp. for making false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims about its AI-powered facial recognition software. The company allegedly claimed its software had one of the highest accuracy rates on the market and was free of gender or racial bias, without supporting evidence. The FTC also alleged that IntelliVision did not train its software on millions of faces as claimed, but on images of approximately 100,000 individuals. Under a proposed consent order, IntelliVision is prohibited from making such misrepresentations without competent and reliable testing.
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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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Clearview AI, a secretive start-up, built a facial recognition app that matches photos to a database of more than three billion images scraped from social media and websites. More than 600 law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, have used the tool to identify suspects in crimes such as shoplifting, identity theft and murder. The company monitored officers who ran a reporter's photo through the app, and its founder acknowledged designing an augmented-reality prototype but said there were no plans to release it. Critics warned the tool could end anonymity and enable misuse.
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Whiteside County deputy under investigation for possible Flock camera misuse WQAD
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Ring, an Amazon company, promoted its Search Party feature in a Super Bowl advertisement, saying its AI helps reunite dog owners with missing pets. Critics said the feature, which is enabled by default, turns Ring doorbells into a mass surveillance network and could easily be adapted to track people. Ring said it had reunited 99 dogs in the US in 90 days and that customers keep full control of their data.
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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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Former officer used Flock cameras to surveil and stalk his ex-girlfriend, her family members, and other romantic interests.
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The Flock ALPR system was used by deputies to track the locations of a woman and a teenage girl for personal, non-law-enforcement purposes.
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The system detected and recorded images of vehicles and people, affecting individuals in public spaces.
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