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The Northern California Fusion Center: A High School Case Study
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The Northern California Fusion Center: A High School Case Study
NCRIC's post-SB 34 policy changes stripped security requirements and audit oversight while its log data shows explosive, bot-like search activity from anonymous accounts—raising the question of whethe...
https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/ncric
about 8 hours ago
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley praises Minority Report's precrime program, conflates arrest with conviction, and deploys an evidence authentication system that wouldn't survive a first-year cross-examination. Read more 👉
https://lttr.ai/Ao
S7Z #Flock #Haveibeenflocked #Deflock
about 19 hours ago
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Organization audit logs: Warren County Sheriff’s Department was the only agency to provide these. Read more
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AndAP #iowa #surveillance #aclu
about 19 hours ago
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Flock’s marketing materials, as of this writing, continue to claim that “Customers own 100% of the data collected.” The February contract no longer directly contradict that claim but it does make it an elegant li
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ai/AoSyc #Flock #Deflock #Surveillance
2 days ago
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This falls under the purview of the Iowa Public Information Board and the Iowa Department of Public Safety. Read more 👉
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dAO #iowa #surveillance #aclu
2 days ago
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Who Watches the Watchers? Not the ACLU.
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Who Watches the Watchers? Not the ACLU.
Unredacted audit logs aren't a leak—they're the only functional check on surveillance abuse
https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/aclu-plates
2 days ago
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The Deal has been Altered Further: Flock Publishes New Terms â–¸
https://lttr.ai/AoS
ya #Flock #Deflock #Surveillance
3 days ago
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Five out of six[2] regional RISS centers have direct access to the Flock database Read more 👉
https://lttr.ai/An
c8l #surveillance #security #cjis
3 days ago
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Neither has shown any inclination to enforce compliance, so agencies fabricate legal justifications to deny public access to records. Read more 👉
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dAL #iowa #surveillance #aclu
4 days ago
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In December '25, Flock moved its contract terms online, carved footage out of customer data, and expanded Flock’s IP claims. Its new terms are even worse. Read more
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AoSyX #Flock #Deflock #Surveillance
4 days ago
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The legal term for this response is “making shit up”—evidenced by the complete failure to cite any actual legal basis. Read m
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.ai/AndAH #iowa #surveillance #aclu
5 days ago
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The ACLU of Iowa and the University of Iowa submitted public records requests to agencies across the state for information on ALPR systems. Read more 👉
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dAK #iowa #surveillance #aclu
5 days ago
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Agencies “nonsensically” claimed transparency portals as confidential—only one agency, Davenport, actually made this claim explicitly, though several claimed they didn’t maintain the portal. Read
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tr.ai/AndAD #iowa #surveillance #aclu
6 days ago
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Agencies routinely disclose legally protected intelligence data, criminal justice information, and criminal history information to commercial and government partners in violation of statutory restrictions. Read more 👉
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dAG #iowa #surveillance #aclu
6 days ago
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For now, until the government acts, all we can do is wear specific adversarial clothing to defeat ReID and don ski masks to defeat facial recognition. Read more 👉
https://lttr.ai/Ao
aWx #surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
7 days ago
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Portal logs: Thirteen of 48 agencies provided heavily redacted portal logs containing only user UUIDs, search dates, camera counts, and reasons. Read more 👉
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dAB #iowa #surveillance #aclu
7 days ago
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While details on Flock’s actual implementation are sparse, examining an open source project like torch-reid as a model implementation reveals the broader implications. Read more
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AncQV #surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
8 days ago
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This is combined with soft biometrics, which includes things like clothing (color, type), apparent gender, accessories, and body mechanics (height, body shape, etc.). Read more 👉
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cQW #surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
8 days ago
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These partnerships obliterate Flock’s defense that information sharing is a local decision. Read more
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AoSyu #surveillance #security #cjis
9 days ago
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That means RISS centers are not in any way restricted by copyright law[3], and don’t require a licensing agreement with Flock Read more
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AoSu8 #surveillance #security #cjis
9 days ago
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ICE also continues to have broad indirect access to Flock’s database through third parties, and through its 287(g) program, which pays state and local agencies for access to their officers and investigative tools and capacity. Read more
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AoSu7 #surveillance #security #cjis
10 days ago
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The federated RISS centers exist for a single purpose: to “facilitate information sharing.” Read mor
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i/Anc8e #surveillance #security #cjis
10 days ago
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Flock changes terms again; this time, it gives itself an unrestricted, irrevocable, perpetual license to all customer content. Also, it adds mandatory arbitration under Georgia law.
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The Deal has been Altered Further: Flock Publishes New Terms
Flock's terms got worse. All of them. The new terms add perpetual data licenses, mandatory Georgia arbitration, and potential constitutional problems for every city that signs.
https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/terms-feb2026
11 days ago
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Earlier this year, media reported that ICE had direct and indirect access to Flock’s database — a database widely used in Illinois. Read mor
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i/Anc8c #surveillance #security #cjis
11 days ago
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Flock’s leadership team responded first by blaming police, then by blaming its employees, and, when the media storm had passed, by quietly resuming sharing with immigration agencies through the backdoor. Read more
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Anc8b #surveillance #security #cjis
12 days ago
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Location records obtained through cell phone warrants show that on the morning of the 29th, Frank took the train to Grayslake, spent some time there, and then took a bus to Marco’s house in Round Lake Beach. Read more
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Anc9M #surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
16 days ago
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Instead of “good old-fashioned police work”—like searching 30 feet from a blood trail—the state relied on massive, retroactive digital dragnets. Read
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tr.ai/Anc9O #surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
17 days ago
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The plot of Minority Report soars over Garrett Langley's head as he attempts to lower expectations for Flock's broken evidence authentication.
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Langley Speaks on the Burden of Truth and Minority Report
Flock CEO Garrett Langley praises Minority Report's precrime program, conflates arrest with conviction, and deploys an evidence authentication system that wouldn't survive a first-year cross-examinati...
https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/burden-of-truth
18 days ago
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About an hour later, Wayne PD receives the phone call about multiple gunshots, roughly eight miles from the casino. Read more 👉
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c9K #surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
18 days ago
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The agencies successfully exploited information asymmetry to misrepresent compliance—even the ACLU and University of Iowa accepted heavily redacted portal logs as legitimate disclosure and moved on. Read more
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AndAA #iowa #surveillance #aclu
19 days ago
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Predictable denials, dubious legal assertions, and—remarkably—the first release of actual logs in Iowa. Read mor
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i/Anc98 #iowa #surveillance #aclu
20 days ago
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10 agencies claimed their search logs were confidential, 10 claimed their audit logs were confidential, and 2 nonsensically claimed their transparency portals were confidential. Read more 👉
https://lttr.ai/An
c95 #iowa #surveillance #aclu
21 days ago
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ACLU and University of Iowa Conduct Case Study in Institutional Contempt â–¸
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94 #iowa #surveillance #aclu
22 days ago
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Maybe it doesn’t matter — we know that Flock’s outsourced data labeling platform classifies photos and screams, but that same analysis also revealed that it lets our foreign friends train another feature: ReID. Read
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r.ai/AncQU #surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
23 days ago
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An oft-repeated claim is that Flock cameras don’t detect people, and when they do it’s only basic movement detection, and totally not facial detection. Read mor
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i/AndES #surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
24 days ago
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By mid-March, police apply for a search warrant for all location data from every Android phone in a two kilometer (1.25 miles) radius around the location where Frank’s body was found. Read more
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Anc9E #surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
25 days ago
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Flock's new CISO co-founded a nonprofit with a Bishop Fox board member. Now Bishop Fox is conducting Flock's 'independent' security audit. Sure.
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Red Team, Red Flags: Flock's Bishop Fox Engagement Creates Compliance Nightmare
Flock Safety hired Bishop Fox for adversarial security testing. Under CJIS rules, successful testing would trigger mandatory incident reporting—making competent auditing a compliance violation.
https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/bishop-fox
25 days ago
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Some of these are marketed features; like alerts when video signals are lost, or when persons cross a boundary defined on Flock’s PTZ cameras. Read more
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AncQS #surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
26 days ago
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In 2024, Illinois passed the Illinois TRUST Act (5 ILCS 805), which prohibits Illinois police from sharing data for civil immigration purposes. Read more 👉
https://lttr.ai/An
dEQ #surveillance #security #cjis
27 days ago
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Vector State: License Plates for Pedestrians:
https://lttr.ai/AncQR
#surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
28 days ago
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As long as Flock does not actively prevent this type of information-laundering, the company’s statements about data ownership, sharing control, and compliance with state law are entirely meaningless. Read more
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AndDP #surveillance #security #cjis
29 days ago
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The Data-Sharing Shell Game: Flock, RISS, and the Federal Surveillance Backdoor:
https://lttr.ai/AncQ9
#surveillance #security #cjis
about 1 month ago
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Evansville, IN says it did not authorize the release of Flock audit logs to
haveibeenflocked.com
. It also says it maintains complete control over the data. Pick one.
www.courierpress.com/story/news/l...
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Evansville Police Department's Flock camera searches posted online
More than 80,000 searches of Flock Safety cameras by Evansville police were posted online. The FBI said the data put officers at risk.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2026/01/28/evansville-flock-safety-camera-searches-leaked-online-fbi-warning-immigration-enforcement-news-epd/88050418007/
about 1 month ago
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The file, but not the reporting on the prosecutor’s statements, shows Rob received a six-second call from Northern Illinois area code at 11:03pm, while Rob and Marco were still in the area where Frank’s body was found. Read mor
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i/Anc9I #surveillance #murder
about 1 month ago
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The family, who had already been looking for Frank, hand police a cloned phone, his Google password, the name of a suspect—let’s call him Marco—and information about text messages that were suspicious at best. Read m
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.ai/Anc9F #surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
about 1 month ago
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Despite Illinois' TRUST Act ban on immigration data sharing, ICE maintains backdoor access to Flock's database through RISS and local agencies. Read more 👉
https://lttr.ai/An
cQ7 #surveillance #security #cjis
about 1 month ago
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Too Much, Too Late: A Digital Dragnet for a Homicide â–¸
https://lttr.ai/Anc
Mu #surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader #FlockSafety #RoundLakeBeach #Illinois #ALPR
about 1 month ago
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