Flock Safety operates a private nationwide license plate tracking database of Americans’ movements accessible to police officers.
The company uses AI to analyze driving patterns and flag vehicles as “suspicious,” potentially prompting police reports without prior suspicion.
Features like Multi-State Insights, Convoy Search, and Multiple Locations Search generate new suspicions by identifying vehicle movement across states and associations.
This marks mission creep from reactive investigations to proactive suspicion generation through mass surveillance.
Flock’s AI algorithms lack transparency, oversight, and accountability, raising concerns about error rates, biases, and unfair targeting.
Civil liberties experts urge communities to refuse participation in this mass surveillance system to protect privacy and prevent bias.
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