Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times

>“It’s a very effective tool and we don’t want to be judged on the poor decisions made by one officer.”

Yeah, I bet you don't.

This is just a drop in the bucket. There have been at least 50 cops charged with using flock data to stalk ex partners and women they are interested in!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-pol...

They must really want to use this tech on us if they're willing to throw their own under the bus for using it "wrong".

Regardless, hemming and hawing about lack of access controls and rogue (i.e. not using to do their job properly) cops is implicitly saying that this system could/would/should exist if it has "proper" access controls, whatever that means. It's like seeing a slave labor gulag and saying that the prisoners need better recreation ad more frequent laundry as if that would make it not fundamentally a gulag. To say things like access controls need to be fixed or tied to warrants is advocating for turd polishing. Even with proper access controls the purpose of these systems is to create misery at the hands of the state. The turd is still a turd even if it's shiny.

With all of the privacy concerns of Flock, at least in the interim it’s a useful honeypot for criminal law enforcement.