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Civil liberties organisation that called the measures retreads of inadequate safeguards, asked for an independent evaluator and said there is no evidence the audit tool works consistently.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
At least 56 municipalities cut Flock Safety contracts this year. Axon has already replaced it in at least seven, which tells you where the real control point sits.
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CORCA puts a retail crime coordination center inside Homeland Security Investigations. Critics say the data-sharing trigger is any "threat," with retailers as direct suppliers.
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WIRED says it pulled 69 prewritten police prompts and 45 tool definitions off Flock's own website. The procurement lesson: a vendor's "cannot" describes this build, not the next one.
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Flock now asks officers to type a criminal case number before searching its plate-reader network. It told MIT Technology Review it does not verify the numbers.
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Over 90% of partial-plate searches happen within a week, by Flock's own telemetry. That makes the old 30-day default a capacity finding first and a privacy finding second.
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The Administrative Office of the US Courts will add a "spyware/hacking" category to its annual Wiretap Report, creating a countable public figure where there has never been one.
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