How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking

How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

Why does this sound like the authors are surprised? This has been happening for decades with license plates and finding addresses. This is how you know a journalist is truly shitty, by the way: they pretend they have amnesia.

Flock should literally have built protections in from the start. They only added protections when?

In April, the company rolled out a new voluntary “audit assistance” feature, which agencies can choose to enable, that automatically scans officers’ searches for suspicious activity, such as queries repeatedly targeting the same vehicle or run by officers off the clock.

In an interview with The Post, Flock chief executive Garrett Langley said misuse of its systems is inevitable

Thanks for waiting to add voluntary protections for regular people from the very worst of society! Very cool.