{"id":63785,"date":"2026-04-06T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63785"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:05:57","slug":"the-guardian-creepy-surveillance-why-some-cities-are-shutting-down-flock-cameras-amid-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63785","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: \u2018Creepy surveillance\u2019: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/apr\/06\/flock-cameras-privacy-concerns\">\u2018Creepy surveillance\u2019: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns<\/a> by George Chidi (&#8220;In recent city council meetings in Dunwoody, Georgia, a spokesman for Flock Safety, a Georgia-based firm that provides automated license plate readers, has found himself in the hot seat again. For two months running, some residents of the affluent north Atlanta suburb in the region\u2019s tech corridor have been demanding an end to the city\u2019s contract with the security firm, which has drawn similar protest from California to New York. Between a recent change in terms of service that removed a line assuring customers that the company does not own and will not sell customer data \u2013 done to eliminate redundancy, Flock says \u2013 and videos circulating of hackers showing how they had obtained access to live video feeds from Flock cameras, Dunwoody residents and some members of the city council have been in in revolt.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: \u2018Creepy surveillance\u2019: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns by George Chidi (&#8220;In recent city council meetings in Dunwoody, Georgia, a spokesman for Flock Safety, a Georgia-based firm that provides automated license plate readers, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63785\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63786,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63785\/revisions\/63786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}