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A resident, described in Yahoo News reporting as a lawyer, organizer, and lifelong Charlottean, looked at a Flock Safety representative and asked: “How do we hold Flock Cameras accountable?” What followed was not a crisp answer.

Sanders teams up with Democratic lawmakers to stop the government from using automated license plate readers. Credit: Justin Sullivan/

The momentum behind banning Flock cameras and other surveillance tech continues to build, with Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley, together with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, filing a new Ban Flock Act that does exactly what you might expect given its name.

Flock, whose cameras scan license plates across the country, continues to draw public anger, and now Senator Bernie Sanders wants the federal government out of the business altogether.

A cybersecurity researcher built the most detailed public map of Flock Safety’s surveillance app infrastructure using location data reportedly retrieved from publicly accessible, unauthenticated endpoints and described as originating in Flock’s own records. The map documented roughly 300,000 devices, a figure that dwarfs the company’s publicly cited camera count. One day after a Senate hearing…

Embattled surveillance technology company Flock Safety unveiled a “generous” severance package for voluntary employee departures on Friday, according to a report in Wired.

The Flock backlash might have taken a backseat to more recent tech news — namely, whetherAI development needs to slow down before superintelligence wipes us out, or, on a lighter note,Apple’s first foldable iPhone — but the anti-surveillance crusade is continuing, with Boston officials and its police department announcing the city will not be relying…

An ILTACON 2026 panel explores how law firms can govern agentic AI teams, which can now plan and act on their own, while keeping human oversight front and center.

Florida joins a growing list of cities and states responding to the license plate reader backlash.