Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras- 404 Media
Flock Safety, a company that sells license plate reader cameras widely used by law enforcement, has communicated to police that it intends to add facial recognition capability to its camera network.
Why this matters: Flock cameras are already in thousands of communities, quietly logging every car that passes. Adding faces to that system is a significant jump. License plates identify vehicles. Faces identify people, wherever they walk. That means a network built for traffic monitoring could become something much closer to a nationwide face-scanning grid, run by a private company and sold to local police. The public rarely gets a vote on these expansions. They just happen, and then they are infrastructure.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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