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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 9h

#ALPR abuse in #Cheektowaga! "the three dispatchers allegedly used the #Flock automated license plate reader system to search for another employee’s plate over a period of months without the employee’s knowledge" Steps have been taken to "tighten policies." 🙄 NoALPRs.com 🚫 #deflock #surveillance

wivb.com

3 Cheektowaga dispatchers suspended over Flock misuse

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Three public safety dispatchers with Cheektowaga police have been suspended after misusing the Flock system, according to the Cheektowaga Police Department. Police said…

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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 19h

A weekend incident in which a Flock camera search led Lexington police to surround the wrong home has sparked widespread online criticism of the city’s use of the surveillance technology.

weku.org

Flock search that led Lexington police to surround wrong home intensifies debate over the tech

Resident Will Penn posted doorbell camera footage to Facebook after the incident. It's since been shared thousands of times.

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Car Lite San Mateo @carlitesanmateo.com · 20h

The first protected intersection I know of in San Mateo is out to bid this morning! It connects to unprotected lanes and sharrows for now, but it's a good step. The intersection has a stop sign today, so it's promising to see the city use a signal upgrade project to add quality bike infrastructure.

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 19h

The *constant* need to defend our privacy from these goons has me spitting mad. From the article: "USPS will partner with Next Base, a dashcam company, for the pilot. At the moment, the cameras will be used in the Washington, DC area, and will be installed on [100] vehicles."

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 23h

A friend recently asked me, somewhat incredulously, what my problem is with ALPRs. My answer: it makes me guilty before I've even come under suspicion of having committed a crime. Police should not have access to tools that exacerbate existing tendencies to abuse their power.

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Limiting surveillance data retention to 30 days is still surveillance. 30 days is still too long for innocent people to be at risk of scrutiny by the police without having committed any crime.

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Caltrain @caltrain.com · 30/09/2026

Good morning! We know National Coffee Day was yesterday but we wanted to celebrate with you today to close out Transit Month.🥹 We will be at 4th and King, San Mateo, and Palo Alto stations this morning thanking our riders with stickers and coffee. While supplies last.♥️

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Sorry, your [job/benefits/etc] application is declined because your [disease/neurotype/etc] makes you ineligible to live."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 29/09/2026

VIDIZMO advertises tools that name people on live camera feeds, match faces to watchlists, and flag "behavior." Its CEO says the Flock integration is not built yet. He also says the company "would love to do the integration."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 29/09/2026

This is the lesson of the ALPR debate. A vendor's promise is not a safeguard. Once a mass surveillance network exists, other companies build on top of it. Only law and judicial oversight set real limits.

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds." What could go wrong?

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Earlier this evening a federal jury struck down a brazenly unconstitutional traffic stop scheme "that turned mass surveillance of American drivers into a pipeline of pretextual traffic stops and unconstitutional searches." ij.org/press-releas...

The unconstitutional program ran in five steps: First, surveillance cameras across the state and country recorded license plates and logged when and where cars went. Second, analysts and anonymous tipsters flagged ordinary travel, like driving toward the border and back, as suspicious. Third, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies invented a traffic violation to justify pulling over the flagged driver. Fourth, deputies pulled drivers into their front seats, interrogated them and asked consent to search their car. Finally, fifth, if the driver refused to consent to a search, a K-9 alert from a manipulated dog supplied the probable cause to search anyway. This practice happened for four years to countless motorists.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

I think ironically, and perhaps a tad optimistically, we are going to go back to seeking out knowledge and experience from our communities and our elders because the internet as it is now has made it near impossible to find real info.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

It ALMOST feels like we’re just starting to reach the normies with “the federal government and Silicon Valley have joined forces to spy on every aspect of your life and it’s called Palantir” and it’s either going to be the turning point for radical privacy or cripple the concept forever.

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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How often does #Flock get it wrong and what happens when police trust bad data? "BI found that errors and failures to verify its alerts have put innocent people in harm's way. We identified drivers who'd been stopped, injured, or jailed after Flock leads went wrong." #deflock #surveillance #alpr

youtu.be

Misuse Of Flock's Cameras Is Sending Innocent People To Jail | Dispatch

YouTube video by Business Insider

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

San Mateo! ALPRs are on the city council agenda for October 5th - one week from today! Please plan to attend this meeting to submit public comment on this item. It's really important that the council see the faces of those of us impacted by their decisions. #alprs #sanmateo

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026

This industry prides itself on denying consent EVERYWHERE YOU GO and these are people influencing policy and culture, creating the architecture of the technologies we all use. This is not a do first, ask for permissions later culture, it's a do because they think they don't need permissions ever.

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Mike Katz-Lacabe @mlacabe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An innocent man spent 30 days in jail because of an AI-powered license plate reader. This will keep happening if we don't put a stop to the mass surveillance enabled by Flock, Axon, and other vendors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTR...

youtube.com

Wrongful arrest sparks Flock camera questions

YouTube video by 11Alive

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’m not saying you should read this—it’s not very good. However, I just thought this section head in particular deserved widespread ridicule. www.vox.com/politics/504...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Number of times the word “Black” appears in this article: 0 Number of times the word “immigrant” appears in this article: 0 Number of times the word “abortion” appears in this article: 0

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Starting to view this trend toward getting people to want computers to live our lives for us as some kind of parallel to the evangelical yearning for the rapture

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 27/09/2026

Many of you are privileged not to come from a time when queer communities were the first to be thrown under the bus when something bad happened. Hell, this is happening today. Who do you think is going to be the first people thrown under the bus when a pervert uses this tech for really bad shit?

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 27/09/2026

queer people already find it hard to do just the basic thing, like go to a public toilet, without being called a pervert or pedo or something disgusting. This has been happening for many years but is worse now. Imagine how amplified that will get when a queer person gets accused of using this tech

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Car Lite San Mateo @carlitesanmateo.com · 26/09/2026

This is one of the paths that enables me to efficiently walk from my neighborhood to the local post office. I really wish pedestrian connectivity was a higher priority around here. Every few months these get “fixed” by the property owner and then it gets re-fixed to look like this.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We should be treating this like we would treat Lockheed Martin if they started hacking the US and its allies.

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Caltrain @caltrain.com · 25/09/2026

Coffee + Caltrain ☕️ Three Bees Coffee in San Mateo is offering 15% off throughout the rest of Transit Month to Caltrain customers. Just show your Clipper or Caltrain paper ticket to receive the discount!

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America has "one man, one vote", but some votes are worth 68 times more than others. bsky.app/profile/gaud...

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If any of my friends do this to me we are categorically not friends. Nothing says "friendship" less than outsourcing to a computer every element of what constitutes being a friend.

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V Pace @vpace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The profession most likely to domestically abuse has been given tools to make that even easier. Good job everyone.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"...At least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes...In many of these cases, officers used Flock’s roadside cameras to track the location of romantic partners and exes." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.com

Five Indianapolis officers charged following The Post’s reporting on Flock misuse

The officers are among at least 100 police department employees accused of abusing their access to license-plate readers, prompting calls for greater oversight.

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being observed in public and having your every move recorded, analyzed, and stored for later perusal are 2 vastly different things. Even Chief Justice Roberts has said that we don't lose our right to privacy by entering the public sphere. Don't let them convince you otherwise. #alpr #surveillance

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Justice Forward VA @justicefwdva.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BIG & BREAKING: The Fairfax County, Virginia School Board voted UNANIMOUSLY to prohibit the installation, purchase, or use of ALPR mass surveillance cameras on school property. The ban applies to ALL license plate readers made by any manufacturer. #VALeg

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 24/09/2026

“ In a letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that it’s “possible to search for humans in images taken by Flock cameras.” Which contradicts everything on Flock’s website. Huh. www.techbrew.com/stories/floc...

techbrew.com

How do you solve a problem like Flock?

In a statement to Tech Brew, Flock says that “it’s possible to search for the presence of people” but “not a biometric template.”

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026

Our right to conversational privacy must include freedom from others using tech to document what we are saying without our clear opt-in consent. "Otherwise, people will self-censor, and conversation will lose its spontaneity and intimacy," EFF’s @adamdschwartz.bsky.social told @yahoofinance.com.

finance.yahoo.com

Welcome to the age of listening devices

Devices that can listen and record us are becoming more popular, raising privacy concerns.

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gov. Newsom hates trans people so much he vetoed AB2164, which would have banned extradition of providers of abortion care (essentially codifying his 2022 EO), because it also included gender-affirming provisions. He claims it was to protect executive authority, but we know better. Shame on him.

sfchronicle.com

A California bill sought to shore up Newsom’s abortion access plan. He vetoed it

Abortion-rights advocacy groups, one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most reliable allies, are issuing a rebuke after he vetoed a bill that would have extended California’s abortion shield laws.

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As someone descended from an old radical who def had an fbi file it is UNREAL to me that they’re like “yeah it’s a bug you carry around with you that is always recording and pretends to be your friend and think for you ! This is a product you should want”

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Vinyl @zalgie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so with the news of discord doing the stupidest thing with the age check in the world i suggest contacting your reps and senators to prevent more online bills from passing as dooming and despair does nothing to help you and others as right now we gotta stop kosa and other online bills!

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's always this way. It's fine for regular people to be surveilled by the government, but when people with any amount of power discover they too are being targeted - well, no, we can't have that!

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another casualty of skyrocketing diesel prices, even as ridership increases due to...skyrocketing gas prices.

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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

San Jose Mayor Mahan thinks it's okay for the gov to amass data on law-abiding citizens because "public safety": "I really think our job is to... strike the right balance between the public safety value of the tools we give officers and the public risk, whether that risk is privacy or otherwise."

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Institute for Justice @ij.org · 23/09/2026

Federal Judge Orders ICE to Follow Constitution

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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026

Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’

404media.co

Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras

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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Flock's marketing materials claims it has a 99% accuracy rate reading license plates, but #Flock lobbyist Kevin Kane said this is based on "surveys and things like that with customers" & not actual performance data. He only offered to share more details "in private." 🤔 #deflock #surveillance #alpr

mountainstatespotlight.org

Flock Safety faces scrutiny from lawmakers over dodged questions about its surveillance technology

Lawmakers asked Flock for details on digital security, accuracy and data sharing. So far, the company has sidestepped most of those concerns.

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