Flock Safety

“flock is broken at a conceptual level and that means really no amount of implementation details will fix it”

“Axon and Flock buying off town officials is just educational trips for potential customers.”

“There's nothing better about working at Flock or X or Kalshi or Palantir”

“The flock system is being abused by every organization across the entire country”

“Flock's other major implementation issues and other features that have nothing to do with ALPR”

“A major issue with surveillance tech like this is that it actually works.”

“a slick commercial product consciously designed to make its users trust it and use it more and rely on it more”

“What makes mass surveillance systems such as Flock, Ring, etc., incredibly objectionable isn't really the cameras.”

“there is potential for abuse, but that's a risk we're willing to impose on society to make some money”

“Flock had some prompts (/queries or something like that) leak and apparently something as innocuous as visiting multiple gas stations after hours”

“After watching the public flaying of Flock, they're certainly welcome to step into the spotlight next”

“Flock was essentially a data warehouse with dark patterns around sharing settings”

“People cite Flock as an example of this.”

“Some tools (Flock) can have audit trails aka information access - and also therefore limitations”

“Flock appears to have been a way for them to work around all of that and just answer any question they had willy-nilly.”

“their "Transparency Portal" is... not. I know of at least three agencies in my County who are using Flock who are not listed on the Transparency Portal...”

“the tool empowers such easy abuse of liberty that people make no efforts to hide what they're doing”

“The data is identifiable. Just because it's gated by some transformation doesn't mean they are magically not holding my identifiable information.”

“As opposed to their mayor/governor/president, who they not only can easily find out who it is if they don't already”

“They seem to be the most auditable and accountable.”

“The problem with Flock is not who owns the data, it's the potential for abuse.”

“offer data laundering so that organizations that shouldn't be talking can communicate”

“Flock operates a service that undermines and endangers society as well as innocent individuals”

“If this for some reason fails, misconfiguration or unexpected shutdown, you could have a failure that's hard to track or debug”

“Flocks only use is for the systematic tracking of people for use by police and government agencies”

“Flock is both making it happen and making it clear that they are fine with enabling bad actors to take advantage of it.”

“the people deploying these cameras have no idea the feeds are being resold to Flock”

“Flock has been a key contributor in solving numerous crimes.”

“it's a giant database of photos, locations, times, license plate information, and likely a lot more”

“the effect on my follow-through has been significant”

“Companies like Discord, Flock, and Palantir get a lot of flak because they deserve it.”

“I don't think Flock is this Big EviL coMpaNy you are making them out to be.”

“You can even skip the investigator in a lot of places, thanks to Flock. Dystopian.”

“it makes sense to use "flock" to prevent overlapping executions of frequently running jobs”

“Flock didn't stop the shooting, nor apprehend the killer alive. There's zero utility in post-hoc surveillance to the taxpayer.”

“With ALPR's police have immediate access without warrants to the nationwide network.”

“see what they're working on, track your intentions against specific goals”

“They might record someone's car being near some place where maybe something illegal happened.”

“once someone has a hammer, especially one that grants them this much extra power, they will go looking for nails”

“All the coverage lately on things like Flock and other privacy-reducing panopticon startups always softball the topic so hard.”