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.
Publishers:engadget.com · gizmodo.com · thenextweb.com · wired.com
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 20%
- Operator
- Operator 59%
- Investor
- Investor 21%
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives68
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.
Publishers:404media.co
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption68
build1 distinct publisher WIRED found 14 prompts in Flock Safety's unreleased investigation tool that need no plate, name, or description. The predicate for the search becomes the buyer's problem.
Publishers:runtimewire.com
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption22
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.
Publishers:techdirt.com · technologyreview.com
Reality
- Evidence76
- Adoption64
build1 distinct publisher 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.
Publishers:dev.to
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption58