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This YouTuber Got Kicked Out of the Flock Convention. So He Ran His Own Surveillance.

The surveillance contractor Flock Safety argues that police customers don't need a warrant to track drivers with its automated license plate reading cameras because drivers have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" on public roads. So YouTube host Benn Jordan applied the same logic back on Flock. He sat outside Flock's recent police convention in Atlanta with radio equipment and a drone, which he used to unmask attendees and even listen to microphones inside the convention hall. "Flock values their privacy. Oh well," Jordan wrote in the title of his video on the convention. His plans didn't quite start out that way. Jordan, an early and outspoken critic of Flock, wanted to visit the convention to see what the relationship between police and the company was like after a string of cases in
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