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Flock Safety has ended its pilot program for 'Distress Detection,' a feature that would have used its citywide acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify sounds of human distress. The reversal follows public warnings from the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the privacy implications of the technology.
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The Los Angeles Police Department has allowed its contract with Flock Safety, a major automated license plate reader company, to lapse after citing serious civil liberties and privacy concerns. LAPD had been one of Flock's largest government clients.
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Legal experts are weighing whether automated license plate reader networks could face new constitutional constraints following the Supreme Court's recent move to limit warrantless location tracking. If courts extend that logic to ALPR data, law enforcement would likely need a warrant before searching the vast databases these camera systems generate.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity
A Texas sheriff's office used data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader cameras to track a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion, illustrating how surveillance tools built for routine law enforcement can be redirected toward investigating private healthcare decisions. Mayday Health is working to inform Texans about the specific technologies being used against them.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that law enforcement agencies using Flock Safety's automated license plate reader systems are running scans against federal hotlists that include targets designated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Local police departments may be participating in immigration enforcement through this system without the public being aware.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that automated license plate reader networks, marketed as public safety tools, are increasingly being used by authorities for minor infractions such as noise complaints, effectively functioning as broad population-tracking systems rather than targeted investigative tools.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is highlighting its ongoing legal and advocacy work against mass surveillance technologies, using its spring membership drive to draw attention to cases like that of Will Freeman, who built a tool called DeFlock.me to expose how automated license plate readers collect location data on virtually every vehicle that passes them.
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Residents in Southern California have begun noticing license plate readers near the border that appear to be operated by U.S. Border Patrol. Some people in the area have reported unclear or confusing interactions with agents connected to the infrastructure.
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