Flock Claims It's the First Company to Expose Police Misuse of Surveillance Tech

6 points
1/21/1970
13 hours ago
by speckx

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Dezvous

Flock isn't even finding the abuse or exposing the abuse. Sometimes it's their customers (police) discovering the abuse - if they actually perform audits like they should, but usually it's citizens submitting FOIA requests for data and discovering the abuses.

12 hours ago

rezistik

This isn’t true. Flock has an entire team dedicated to creating these auditing tools.

That’s why we hear about abuse of flock over abuse of axon which does not offer those tools.

12 hours ago

Dezvous

Show me an example of Flock (i.e. a Flock employee or official company record) exposing a cop for abusing their systems. Providing auditing tools to the customers to discover abuse is not exposing the abuse. If they were exposing the abuse they would be publishing publicly when officers submitted searches that violated a search policy, which they could do with their 'transparency' portals. But they'll never do that.

11 hours ago

rezistik

That doesn’t make any sense at all.

You’re right I guess in that flock isn’t themselves going through audit logs I don’t believe but everything else is incorrect.

I don't really think it is Flocks job to do the auditing. Flocks job is to make auditing possible and to surface abuse to the parties involved in policing the usage.

10 hours ago

bartleeanderson

Flock has an entire team enabling abuse from local to federal and others. The whole point of Flock is to surveil and that is an abuse of privacy. No wonder the CEO has to hide the image of his house. I'd be scared for my life too, if I were pissing off the public so bad.

8 hours ago