Flock is the tip of the iceberg
You shouldn’t have to wonder who is watching where you go. But right now, private companies are selling that information to the highest bidder, and federal agencies are buying it without a warrant. Flock Safety built a business selling and leasing tools to local police departments that allow them to track your location and your movements. Flock and similar companies have provided license plate scanning surveillance with guardrails so lax that around 50 cases have been reported in which law enforcement officers abused the technology to stalk people they knew. And Flock is just one player in a much bigger market. Agencies like ICE, the FBI, and the Pentagon have all admitted to buying your sensitive personal data from private data brokers, circumventing the court and forgoing warrants. The government is openly violating the Fourth Amendment. Right now, we have a real opening to force an end to this egregious practice. When the public turned up the heat on Flock Safety, ...
