Flock Cameras and License Plate Readers Are Everywhere. Can We Trust Cops With Them?

From wrongful arrests to officers stalking exes, license plate cameras keep exposing police failures.

CEO Garrett Langley pushed back against a “misconception that we are some evil entity that has these diabolical plans.”

They were involved in incidents tracking people with whom they had a “personal relationship".

The rise of public surveillance has also led to the rise of an adversarial counterpart: fashion designed to confuse AI security cameras. It’s designed to baffle the senses of Axon body cams, Flock cameras, and other tools of mass surveillance through tricks like patterns that AI sensors confuse for animals, objects, or

Leonardo already counts government agencies and border security amongst its customer base.

SignalTrace, a system marketed by the security company Leonardo, is designed to work alongside automatic license plate readers.

Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools.

Flock Safety’s automated license plate-reading cameras, used by thousands of law enforcement agencies in the U.S., have drawn intense criticism from civil liberties groups.

License plate readers like this one could soon be joined by sensors that detect phones inside passing cars. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Imagine that you share a ride to work with the same colleague most mornings. As it passes by a license plate reader, the camera records the car, which can be linked through vehicle re