Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Flock Enables Law Enforcement Personnel to Misuse Vehicle Location Info for Surveillance, Stalking

https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-lawsuit-alleges-flock-enables-law-enforcement-personnel-to-misuse-vehicle-location-info-for-surveillance-stalking

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1373340/class-action-lawsuit-alleges-flock-enables-law-enforcement-personnel-to-misuse-vehicle-l

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trashboat@piefed.social · 7 pts · 7d (1 reply)

I don’t know what would make it possible, but wouldn’t collective legal action against the local governments make more sense than attacking Flock specifically? Maybe both would be appropriate- but at the end of the day, PDs bought this and are themselves carrying out these unconstitutional behaviors without the consent of citizens. Also I’ve heard there are other Flock-adjacent companies selling the same service

undrwater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/police/2026/08/25/560301/flock-cameras-katy-police-officer/

They're targeting individual cops who abuse this. I wonder if the suit against flock will try to argue that the officers have too much access.

keyhoh@piefed.social · 5 pts · 7d

Can we please have one cop use this system to track and report the whereabouts of prominent community members that make these decisions to put the cameras up? Like a constant update of where this councillor is and what they're buying, when they stopped, if they were speeding, etc? Is there a good cop out there willing to do a good thing for society?