Vendor pitches facial recognition layer for Flock camera data
A vendor is proposing to add a facial recognition capability on top of data already collected by Flock Safety cameras, which are widely used by law enforcement agencies across the United States for license plate reading and vehicle tracking.
Why this matters: Flock cameras are already in thousands of communities, quietly logging where cars go. Adding facial recognition on top of that is a significant jump. License plates identify vehicles. Faces identify people, in real time, as they move through public space. If this layer gets adopted, the same infrastructure that tracks your car can track you. There is no opt-out for walking past a camera. The people who should be asking hard questions about this are the local officials who signed the original Flock contracts, because they probably did not agree to this.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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