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Little Green FootballsSep 23, 2026

Some More News: Why These Flock Cameras Are Worse Than You Thought

Hi. On today's episode of Some More News, we look at those Flock Cameras, why they're everywhere now, why you almost certainly hate them, and why getting to know their CEO will make you hate them even more. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction/What’s With These Flock’n Cameras? 7:13 - All The Problems With Flock. 19:04 - Why Flock Is Way Worse Than You Thought 26:30 - Cops Suck. Flock Is Worse. 33:57 - Meet The Flock CEO. An Idiot. 47:40 - Everyone Hates Flock Cameras Hosted ...

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TechdirtSep 22, 2026

Cold TAKE: Amazon’s New Encryption Method Still Doesn’t Deliver Real Privacy

Amazon recently debuted a new feature for its Ring cameras that the company is calling Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE). The idea is to cut back on the amount of video content available to the company, and thus potentially available to law enforcement. But while it might technically add a speed bump to accessing...

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Washington Privacy OrganizersSep 21, 2026

Tell Seattle City Council to ban surveillance pricing — and reject all amendments that add loopholes, weaken enforcement, and carve in surveillance technologies

Click here to bring up a draft mail to Seattle City Council in your email program -- or see the other suggestions below Surveillance pricing (also known as algorithmic price-based discrimination) is where corporations use vast quantities of personal data to set individualized prices ... in other words, charge you more if they think they...

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Washington Privacy OrganizersSep 21, 2026

Tell Seattle City Council to ban surveillance pricing — and reject all

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Blog - BlogSep 19, 2026

Supprimons les bannières de cookies 🍪

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TechdirtSep 15, 2026

The High Crime Of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Flock Mass Surveillance As A Joke

Here's a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025? If your answer is "I don't know," it turns out you're 100% correct. The officer left the letters "idk" in the search field where cops are supposed to...

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TechdirtSep 15, 2026

LG TVs Snoop Your Local Network, Listen To You When ‘Off’

LG hasn't been making many friends lately. It annoyed some LG "smart" TV users recently when it tried to force them to use Microsoft's Copilot AI system. It's also been force-installing surveillance bloatware on many LG user's monitors as it ramps up data surveillance and monetization. Now LG is in hot water again, after YouTube...

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TechdirtSep 11, 2026

Pro-Cop Red States Latest To Kick Flock To The Curb

Whatever wasn't already going poorly for Flock Safety is just going to keep getting worse. Data collected by privacy activist group Secure Justice pointed out what Flock already knows: it's losing customers at an unprecedented rate. More than 214 cities and counties have dropped Flock since 2021. More than 90 of those have done that...

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TechdirtAug 26, 2026

How AI Watermark Mandates Could Unmask Journalists Who Never Touched AI

Imagine a scenario where a documentary filmmaker, in the course of making the documentary, captures some damning footage of corporate malfeasance, which she wishes to share with an investigative reporting organization anonymously. Should we be concerned that mandates on AI watermarking might reveal who she is, even if she's not using AI at all? Last...

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AT Black MediaAug 23, 2026

Power, Truth, and the People: This Week in Black Civic Life

From media literacy to power outages, Black voices break down what's shaping politics, communities, and the fight for progress.

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TechdirtAug 20, 2026

Area (Atlantic) Columnist Decides *Now* Is The Time To Start Defending Flock Safety

Flock's ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring of ALPRs, to mix a metaphor. And that's when the bad news began to roll...

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TechdirtAug 13, 2026

The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics

It still amazes me that there are people out there who think that Donald Trump is a supporter of free speech. It has never been true. Anyone who looks will note that the Trump administration regularly engages in clearly unconstitutional attempts to suppress speech. But because he and his supporters like to claim he's a...

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TechdirtAug 10, 2026

It’s Official: Flock Is For Stalking

Flock Safety is happy it's the go-to choice for tons of law enforcement agencies. While it does suffer some occasional bleeding, its supercharged automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) -- ones that not only capture plates, but pictures of drivers/passengers and full vehicle images to capture any other distinctive features -- are so widely deployed they're...

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TechdirtAug 7, 2026

Another Federal Judge Says Cell Tower Dumps Are Unconstitutional

Well, it looks like investigators better go back to doing actual investigations in the Fifth Circuit, rather than just assuming a little paperwork and a whole lot of assistance from service providers is going to do their work for them. For at least the second time in the same state (Mississippi), federal judges have rejected...

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TechdirtAug 7, 2026

16 Groups Warn FCC’s New ‘Robocall Plan’ Is Really About Dramatically Undermining Privacy

Back in May I noted how the Trump FCC had unveiled a brand new plan to “stop robocalls.” I also noted how the plan doesn’t actually stop robocalls because a well-lobbied U.S. government (1) refuses to hold big companies accountable or collect fines, (2) constantly embraces weak rules that make telemarketers and debt collectors happy...

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TechdirtAug 6, 2026

California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% Of The Time

Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers were first sold as upmarket add-ons for gated communities and HOA curtain-twitchers who wanted to keep tabs on what everyone was doing, whether they lived there or not. Flock soon realized that selling to rich people wasn't as profitable as selling to governments. Law enforcement agencies have always been...

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TechdirtJul 29, 2026

Expansion Of Flock Camera Systems Is Leading To Even More False Positives

Flock Safety's aggressive expansion into the law enforcement market has been coupled with nearly constant negative coverage of its tech and its practices. Multiple cities have paused or cancelled their agreements with Flock following public outcry over the surveillance tech. Flock's willingness to allow law enforcement agencies to search a nationwide network of cameras has...

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TechdirtJul 28, 2026

Court Shuts Down Federal Officers Who Wanted To Run A Stingray Device For A Month Straight

For a long time, cell site simulators, a.k.a. "Stingrays" made headlines on nearly a daily basis. Then they just kind of fell off the map. L3Harris -- the manufacturer of cell site simulators that commanded enough market share to see its flagship product become the victim of genericide -- saw the writing on the wall...

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Fighting Bad Internet BillsJul 5, 2026

N things you can do today to fight bad internet bills across the world

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Get FISA RightJun 27, 2026

Get FISA Right turns 18

Thanks to everybody who's been involved over the years!

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Get FISA RightJun 23, 2026

What next on FISA Section 702? Good question!

Once things do pick up, they're likely to start moving quickly. So ... stay tuned!

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-=Kernel-Error=-May 24, 2026

IP-Kameras: Risiken, Portfreigaben (RTSP/HTTP) & Checks

Moin, ich mag noch einmal etwas zu IP-Überwachungskameras schreiben. Ihr erinnert euch vielleicht an meinen letzten Beitrag zu diesem Thema KLICK. Dort habe ich mich speziell auf den RTSP-Port bezogen und auch https://www.shodan.io/ als Beispiel genannt. Shodan scannt unaufhörlich IPv4-Adressen (bei IPv6 wäre ein flächendeckender Scan kaum praktikabel) und stellt seine Ergebnisse öffentlich zur Verfügung. Sicherheitsforscher — aber leider auch Menschen mit schlechten Absichten — […]

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Published DraftsOct 13, 2025

The Online Identity Crisis

Thoughts on trying to keep one's identity compartmentalized

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Ben WerdmullerApr 27, 2012

CISPA: Act now

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act just passed in the House, during a vote that was moved up a day and staged during the NFL draft. It vastly expands the already onerous act into one that allows significant domestic surveillance. As TechDirt notes: Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. This bill must be blocked in the Senate. If you're a US citizen, you need to call your Senator now. This action list over on Reddit is fantastic, or, once again, Gras

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