Surveillance States Are Expanding... and the courts aren't helping.
#News #TechNews #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #Flock #Ring #Privacy
Daily podcast: Surveillance States Are Expanding... and the courts aren't helping.
#News #TechNews #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #Flock #Ring #Privacy #podcast
Surveillance States Are Expanding... and the courts aren't helping.
#News #TechNews #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #Flock #Ring #Privacy
Daily podcast: Surveillance States Are Expanding... and the courts aren't helping.
#News #TechNews #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #Flock #Ring #Privacy #podcast
"..."statewide lookup” had been turned on for all the city’s cameras since the program began 17 months ago, giving agencies across California access to Mountain View’s data.
While national lookup was enabled, federal agencies including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, and the U.S. Office of Inspector General conducted searches that included Mountain View’s camera.
Around the same time that the Mountain View Police Department became aware of the national lookup breach, it learned that a “statewide lookup” setting was active for all of its Flock cameras... the statewide access... spanned from when the first Flock camera was installed in 2024 until the police department turned off the setting in early January 2026. This meant that any California law enforcement agency that opted into statewide lookup could search the city’s ALPR data"
"..."statewide lookup” had been turned on for all the city’s cameras since the program began 17 months ago, giving agencies across California access to Mountain View’s data.
While national lookup was enabled, federal agencies including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, and the U.S. Office of Inspector General conducted searches that included Mountain View’s camera.
Around the same time that the Mountain View Police Department became aware of the national lookup breach, it learned that a “statewide lookup” setting was active for all of its Flock cameras... the statewide access... spanned from when the first Flock camera was installed in 2024 until the police department turned off the setting in early January 2026. This meant that any California law enforcement agency that opted into statewide lookup could search the city’s ALPR data"
Senators Push for Answers on ICE's #Surveillance Shopping Spree
letter touches on many of the surveillance tech & companies that 404 has been writing about in recent months, including #Flock license plate readers, Penlink #socialMedia & location data monitoring, #Clearview AI’s #facialRecognition tech, #Paragon Solutions’ phone #hacking tech, as well as other social media scanning & #biometric collection DBs used by DHS in #Trump #immigration crackdown.
#privacy #alpr
https://www.404media.co/senators-push-for-answers-on-ices-surveillance-shopping-spree/
Senators Push for Answers on ICE's #Surveillance Shopping Spree
letter touches on many of the surveillance tech & companies that 404 has been writing about in recent months, including #Flock license plate readers, Penlink #socialMedia & location data monitoring, #Clearview AI’s #facialRecognition tech, #Paragon Solutions’ phone #hacking tech, as well as other social media scanning & #biometric collection DBs used by DHS in #Trump #immigration crackdown.
#privacy #alpr
https://www.404media.co/senators-push-for-answers-on-ices-surveillance-shopping-spree/
404 Media: Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock
Jan 27, 2026 at 9:26 AM
The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.
https://www.404media.co/police-told-to-be-as-vague-as-permissible-about-why-they-use-flock/
