Footage obtained by 404 Media shows a Tulsa deputy scrolling 79 plate-reader hits on a driver whose Flock search a federal judge ruled unconstitutional. The judge threw out the Flock evidence and everything the car search found, including more than 91 pounds of meth.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence60
Flock's chief executive sent a Senate subcommittee a letter instead of testifying. It says customer agencies own and control the search records and set retention, and that Flock does very little oversight of how clients search its network.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
None of the invited chief executives of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola Solutions and Verkada testified on Wednesday, and the only criminal charges on that day's record were against five Indiana police officers accused of misusing the technology.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption65
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72
- Confidence58
A Senate subcommittee will ask four camera vendors on Sept. 23 who has access to hundreds of millions of Americans' data. Verkada answered in writing first and said its chief executive cannot attend.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives75
- Confidence50
Red Hat says it was named a Leader in Gartner's 2026 server virtualization quadrant. The feature list Gartner required for inclusion, and Red Hat's own NASA figures, show where a migration budget actually goes.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives92
- Confidence62
EFF pulled Flock Safety's plate-reader search logs through public records requests and found 'LOL', 'LMAO' and 'sexy' entered as justifications. Flock says a dropdown of crimes improved the system.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption74
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
EFF pulled Flock's own audit logs through public records requests and found officers logging jokes, insults and keyboard mash as their reason for license plate searches run between 2023 and late 2025.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption82
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives62
- Confidence70
The president told reporters he likes Flock's license plate readers, a month after Josh Hawley opened a formal investigation into the company's data practices and Greg Abbott halted Texas state funding for the cameras.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption72
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
A June disclosure released Aug. 22 logs 1,051 securities transactions in Trump's accounts. The value bands are so wide the filing's own total lands anywhere between $78.1 million and $263.1 million.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives58
- Confidence38
build1 publisherOne report SoVeryBright wraps the ISO 21496-1 gain-map standard in an upload box. Whether the extra brightness reaches anybody depends on what your CDN and CMS do to the bytes in transit.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+9
- Incentives44
- Confidence56