Chris Larsen gave the SFPD $9.4 million for its real-time crime centre and now says opposition to plate readers has grown huge in two years. Cities are switching cameras off, which makes retention the live term.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives78
- Confidence57
The company says it is past $500 million in recurring revenue at roughly 16.6 times that figure. What the multiple buys is written into contracts cities have started reopening.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption79
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence56
Drew Breunig pays frontier rates to write the brief and about a ninth as much to implement it. On Anthropic's own prices, that keeps roughly $44 of every $50.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption33
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives63
- Confidence54
The breach notice rules out credit card details and confirms names, mobile numbers, order totals and postcodes. The second list is the one that makes a refund-scam call work.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives62
- Confidence46
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.
Reality
- Evidence76
- Adoption64
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives78
- Confidence74
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.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives74
- Confidence40