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“One searchable platform:” this AI surveillance company wants facial recognition added to Flock

Cybernews · · International · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

An AI surveillance company is pushing to integrate facial recognition technology into Flock, a license plate reader network already widely used by law enforcement agencies across the United States. The move would combine two powerful identification tools into a single searchable platform.

Why this matters: Flock already tracks where your car goes. Adding facial recognition would mean tracking where your face goes too. These are not separate privacy concerns — combining them on one searchable platform is a qualitative leap. Police could move from 'find this plate' to 'find this person, everywhere, all the time.' That kind of system changes the relationship between the public and law enforcement in ways most people have not agreed to and most elected officials have not debated openly.

Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · AI governance · Policy

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