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Flock Safety makes automatic license plate reader systems sold to U.S. police departments, with networks covering roughly 40% of American policing agencies.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Offset start times kept a shared file queue from colliding for months. One day-long Codex outage made every launchd lane start at the same instant, and the pickup scripts had no mutual exclusion to fall back on.
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Duplicate side effects all return 200, so nothing alerts on them. The write side of a file-based guard is a single O_EXCL create and it holds under forty processes; every defect four review rounds found afterwards sat in reclaim and in reads.
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Tempe's monthly audits found no misuse, and it switched the cameras off anyway on Wednesday, three hours before a Republican-leaning neighbour did the same and Josh Hawley opened a formal investigation.
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Both parties are now running against data centers, plate cameras and phones in schools. Semafor's evidence is thin, but the mechanism it describes bills developers in calendar time.
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The camera company has 120,000 license plate readers in 49 states and 7,000 agencies under contract. Dozens of cities and counties have now cut ties, and the hardware is being vandalised.
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Body camera footage of a Florida officer who stalked a woman he met on a TV set shows no perimeter was breached. An authorized user made authorized-looking queries, and nothing stopped him.
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