Ratings / Hardware
Critical Rating 1 / 5 · Critical — Active surveillance / serious risk.
Flock Safety builds and deploys localized automated license plate readers (ALPR) and audio intercept hardware that pipe dragnet vehicular and situational surveillance information directly into centralized cloud databases shared across multiple policing networks.
Flock Safety's surveillance systems force constant video, situational telemetry, and audio captures straight to a unified vendor cloud. The hardware functions with zero standalone or isolated network profiles, meaning all device data feeds cross-agency searching without a distinct warrant. Investigations by civil liberties groups confirm updated contractual stipulations extend expansive corporate data brokerage permissions and drop previous 'no-sale' protections, pushing the hardware strictly to Critical.
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