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188 incidents closest to “Flock Group Inc. (d/b/a Flock Safety)” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The system flagged Alek Schott's vehicle as suspicious, leading to a traffic stop, interrogation, and search.
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Fourth-grade students in Jiaxing, China, demonstrated that Hive Box's facial-recognition smart lockers could be opened with a printed photo. The company, which operates a large network of delivery lockers, acknowledged the flaw and suspended the beta feature. The incident raised concerns about the security of facial recognition technology.
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The Flock cameras captured and stored license plate data of vehicles, affecting residents' privacy.
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Jacksons Food Stores is accused of violating a Portland, Oregon, city ordinance by using facial recognition technology in its stores after the ban took effect. The lawsuit, filed in December 2022, alleges the system, supplied by Blue Line Technology, wrongly identifies people as criminals and disproportionately affects women and people of colour. Customers were required to look at a camera and be scanned before entering. The retailer has not responded to the allegations.
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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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Privacy International filed complaints against Clearview AI with five European data protection authorities in May 2021, alleging that the company's scraping of facial images from the web and building a biometric database without consent violates data protection laws. The regulators in the UK, France, Italy, Greece, and Austria have since found Clearview's practices unlawful, imposed fines, and ordered deletion of data. Clearview has appealed the UK fine, and the case is ongoing.
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Whiteside County deputy under investigation for possible Flock camera misuse WQAD
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Clearview AI has agreed to stop selling its facial recognition database to most private US companies as part of a proposed settlement with the ACLU. The company scraped billions of images from social media without consent to build its database, violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. The settlement requires Clearview to delete old facial vectors and allow Illinois residents to opt out. The company can still sell its technology to law enforcement and government agencies.
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The system captured images of vehicles and license plates, and the county failed to release them to a public records requester.
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The system made driving decisions that violated traffic safety laws, affecting other road users.
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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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The system captured license plate data and vehicle locations of individuals passing the cameras.
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The Flock camera system collected and stored license plate data, and a former deputy allegedly accessed it without authorization.
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The system tracked vehicle locations, enabling the deputy to stalk and intimidate family members, his wife, former girlfriends, and others.
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Police officers conducted unauthorized searches on individuals' license plate data.
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The system incorrectly linked Lindsey Isaacs's vehicle to a fatal crash scene, leading to her wrongful arrest and 13-day detention.
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Automated driving system controlled vehicle braking and acceleration, leading to rear-end collisions with other road users
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The system allowed unauthorized searches of license plate data, affecting individuals whose plates were queried.
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Kingsville police officer resigns after investigation into alleged Flock camera misuse Yahoo
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