The Flock backlash might have taken a backseat to more recent tech news — namely, whether AI development needs to slow down before superintelligence wipes us out, or, on a lighter note, Apple’s first foldable iPhone — but the anti-surveillance crusade is continuing, with Boston officials and its police department announcing the city will not be relying on the service any longer.
This follows the publishing of a 2025 report which included details on a Flock pilot the city ran in 2025. According to the report, the city discovered Flock was sharing data with external law enforcement agencies — despite Flock’s agreement with Boston saying data sharing was to be turned off, and the company confirming this was the case.
In response, city officials and Boston’s police department have committed to no longer using Flock cameras going forward. However, it’s worth noting this is not an absolute win for privacy advocates. Boston police department has already begun pilots with two of Flock’s rivals: a Motorola trial began back in February, while an Axon pilot began in June, suggesting it might merely move to a different Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) service.
We need to find methods to turn the laws around on these. EVERYONE needs to Download deflock. Me app. And just take a look at the tens of thousands of cameras in your area every city, suburb, highway, you cannot leave your own subdivision without being tagged by one or multiple. I thought this was being under-stated all online until I took a look for myself. Every major city, small towns, highways, state roads. Literally no where is safe from flock/axon.
So the “safety” company lies as much as the president.
Everybody lie for more money. You want money? Lie and you get money
Which is why good, decent people struggle in this world.
So why do we teach our children not to lie, and why are there honor codes?
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Oh, so all of that shit we’ve been saying since day 1, huh?
According to the report, the city discovered Flock was sharing data with external law enforcement agencies — despite Flock’s agreement with Boston saying data sharing was to be turned off, and the company confirming this was the case.
And right here is where you lost any credibility.
If you can’t handle a simple boolean set to false, then I can’t trust you with anything more complicated.
Now, now
That implies they even implemented such a boolean.
despite Flock’s agreement with Boston saying data sharing was to be turned off, and the company confirming this was the case.
The city should generate an estimated sum of judgments the city would be subjected to from civil rights violations, then sue Flock for that sum to capture the money and pay out to Bostonians.
They can handle it, they chose not to which is worse. This isn’t about incompetence, I really doubt it was a simple mistake.
I am going the incompetence route in these cases as embarrassment tends to be one of the best motivators for dickheads like these
Unfortunately cops aren’t very well known for their critical thinking abilities.
The founders would fuck the flock out of flock. In American bullshit. It’s time to take this country back from the corpo slave state.
Flock was sharing data with external law enforcement agencies — despite Flock’s agreement with Boston saying data sharing was to be turned off
What kind of “agreement” was that, I wonder? Was it a contract?
I could almost believe a company was serious about agreeing to a promised condition if it agreed to binding arbitration in the case of a claim made against it. In the way that we little people are expected to do. Somehow I don’t think Flock did that in this case, though.
