{"id":101347,"date":"2025-11-05T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5643cddbaf95d51e8c7200005797f6df"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:45:22","slug":"flock-haters-cross-political-divides-to-remove-error-prone-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=101347","title":{"rendered":"Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/11\/flock-haters-cross-political-divides-to-remove-error-prone-cameras\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: It should be so legally risky to hold onto that kind of data silo that literally no one will ever willingly do it. Strict liability for misuse.<\/div><p>Flock Safety&mdash;the surveillance company behind the country&rsquo;s largest network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs)&mdash;currently faces attacks on multiple fronts seeking to tear down the invasive and error-prone cameras across the US.<\/p>\n<p>This week, two lawmakers, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/wyden-krishnamoorthi-urge-ftc-to-investigate-surveillance-tech-company-on-negligently-handling-americans-personal-data\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> for a federal investigation, alleging that Flock has been &ldquo;negligently handling Americans&rsquo; personal data&rdquo; by failing to use cybersecurity best practices. The month prior, Wyden wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/wyden_letter_to_flock.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> to Flock CEO Garrett Langley, alleging that Flock&rsquo;s security failures mean that &ldquo;abuse of Flock cameras is inevitable&rdquo; and that they threaten to expose billions of people&rsquo;s harvested data should a catastrophic breach occur.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In my view, local elected officials can best protect their constituents from the inevitable abuses of Flock cameras by removing Flock from their communities,&rdquo; Wyden wrote.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/11\/flock-haters-cross-political-divides-to-remove-error-prone-cameras\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/11\/flock-haters-cross-political-divides-to-remove-error-prone-cameras\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flock Safety\u2014the surveillance company behind the country\u2019s largest netw&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=101347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}