Flock Safety’s ‘Generous’ Buyouts Signal Deeper Surveillance Tech Crisis Flock Safety’s recent offer of “generous” severance packages to its 1,500 employees isn’t an act of corporate benevolence; it is a meticulously engineered retreat. Read More
The Network Imperative Meets Local Control Boston just offered a stark lesson in the hidden architecture of urban surveillance. Its recent decision to abandon a trial with Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Read More
The ‘No FLOCK’ Act: Standardizing the Surveillance State A curious tension defines the emerging battle over automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in the United States. While US Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi and Michael Cloud position their Read More
The Great Unwind: When Cities Turn Off the Cameras Ninety municipal contracts terminated in a single month. That’s not a software bug; it’s a systemic rejection. The August 2026 data, compiled by Oakland’s Read More
The Price of Pervasive Data Collection Perhaps it’s the local summer diet of deep-fried cheese curds, corn on the cob, and Spotted Cow, but Wisconsin residents have been feeling pretty dyspeptic about Flock’s Read More
The Illusion of Algorithmic Accountability The immediate reaction to Flock Safety’s latest announcement—making its audit tool mandatory for all law enforcement clients—is that a tech company is finally taking responsibility for the Read More
The Era of Digital Shadows: Your New Public Identity A new form of digital identity, passively constructed from the electromagnetic whispers of our everyday devices, is now being meticulously mapped onto our physical movements. This Read More