4th Amendment

Same Cage, New Landlord: How Axon is Replacing Flock Without You Noticing

From “The Free Thought Project” Dozens of cities that ripped out Flock’s license plate readers have a new surveillance network watching them anyway — this one hidden inside the streetlight over their driveway. Communities across the country spent the better part of two years fighting to tear down Flock Safety’s license plate readers, and in

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Something Strange Is Going On With Flock Safety Cameras

From “Really Graceful” Something strange is going on with Flock Safety cameras. Flock’s automated license-plate readers have rapidly popped up across American roads, neighborhoods and parking lots…even playgrounds…creating a searchable database of where vehicles have been. As reports emerge of warrantless searches, police misuse and data sharing among thousands of organizations, public outrage has made

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YOUR FOURTH AMENDMENT IS UNDER ATTACK (Again)

From “Guns & Gadgets 2nd Amendment News” A proposed Pennsylvania health regulation could allow officials to enter your home. Here is what this means for your privacy. We are seeing a concerning trend regarding warrant violations and the erosion of our protections against unreasonable search and seizure. The speaker highlights two Supreme Court cases involving

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Flock Safety: From Neighborhood Cameras To Calling Citizens Terrorists

From “technocracy.news” This is a history lesson to set the record straight on the total disruption of the surveillance industry, and other disruptors who will follow the same pattern in the future. I have been careful to provide footnotes and references so you can do your own research and draw your own conclusions. On August

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Flock ‘Safety’? That’s Not What U.S. Patent Papers Say

From “technocracy.news” Flock Group is the ultimate disruptor in the surveillance market. A monster company that has grown from zero in 2027 to over $8.4 billion in less than 10 years. The fact is, Flock wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Y Combinator, which gave them their seed/startup money in 2017 and then mentored/coached

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Post-9/11 Fear Grew the Surveillance State. 25 Years Later, It’s Still Growing.

From “reason.com” The U.S. government responded in ways that are so integrated into daily life that we no longer recognize them. “Mom, why did he take your picture?” my preschooler asked. We were making our way through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint for a family trip. “It’s to compare my face with the picture

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America Is Building a Surveillance State Like China’s

From “reason.com” “If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging and sharing your movements without a warrant,” warns the ACLU. One of the most prescient lines from George Orwell’s 1984 the 1949 dystopian classic about Big Brother, regards that fictional society’s endless surveillance: “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the

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