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Flock tightens privacy controls amid scandals over officer abuse

The Record · · International · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

All Flock Safety customers will be required to adopt its "Audit Assistance" feature for tracking abnormal uses, and the company says it will hold license plate data for only seven days in most cases.

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