Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny

    "Over 1,200 vendors had access to our information through the Flock system," Steinmetz said, adding he did not know the identities of all those entities.

Flock cameras and their ilk are not OK in a civilized, free society.

"Authorities have charged or accused at least 50 law-enforcement officers of using license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes, including to stalk women without their knowledge or consent, a Post analysis of police and court records found.

In 26 of these cases, police investigators and prosecutors said the officers used the technology to spy on their wives, their girlfriends, their exes, their exes’ new partners or women they wanted to meet."

https://archive.is/fxZWT

And 3 more just a week ago in Georgia: https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/3-georgia-deputies-arre...

https://i.ibb.co/WWWYznHX/flock-future.png ;-)

Context: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/06/web-of-knowledge/

There are multiple cases of people being falsely imprisoned because police believed Flock over actual evidence. In each case Flock was wrong.

Isn't it a bit disingenuous to refer to them as merely license plate readers?

They will just switch to Axon