Flock’s founder and CEO Garrett Langley doesn’t think the risks of introducing surveillance technology at scale outweigh the rewards. “If we want to live in a society where, if you commit a crime, you have…
Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that his company has not ended any contracts with its customers over abuse of its products. Speaking to TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos at the Disrupt 2026 conference in San Francisco,…
OpenAI said it has alerted the FBI after discovering that an employee allegedly planted a hidden recording device in one of the AI maker’s office executive conference rooms. The employee, named by federal prosecutors as…
Surveillance camera maker Flock is cutting its workforce as the company faces ongoing and growing backlash to its license plate readers and people-tracking technology. News of the staff cuts comes from Reuters, which reported that…
A federal judge ruled this week that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock Safety to search for her license plate without a warrant. As reported by 404…
But Apple has rushed to offer reassurance. The Apple Watch Series 12, like so many current tech devices, may be constantly listening (otherwise “Hey Siri” wouldn’t be able to work), but users cannot directly access…
Democratic senator Ron Wyden is asking the U.S. government to review how federal law enforcement agencies use hacking tools and spyware against Americans, citing a lack of transparency into how often or for what reasons…
The FBI has been using hacking techniques and tools, such as spyware, since at least 1998, but to date there is no public data counting how often the feds were deploying them. That’s about to…
Surveillance technology startup Flock announced a series of new policies and tools on Thursday, claiming they will help curb abuse of its automated license plate camera reader systems and help keep its law enforcement customers…
Bill Swearingen has spent the past year running largely the same test, over and over again. The goal was to produce a computer-generated pattern that could block the surveillance cameras lining America’s streets from detecting…