{"id":64654,"date":"2026-08-14T05:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64654"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:56:10","slug":"nyt-flock-announces-privacy-updates-to-its-car-tracking-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64654","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Flock Announces Privacy Updates to Its Car-Tracking Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/13\/business\/flock-cameras-privacy-updates.html?searchResultPosition=3\">Flock Announces Privacy Updates to Its Car-Tracking Cameras<\/a> by Aruni Soni (\u201cCritics say the measures are \u201cpublic relations\u201d and leave room for continued misuse.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Flock Safety, a company facing increasing scrutiny of its nationwide car-tracking technology, announced several updates on Thursday it said would improve privacy protections and prevent misuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company\u2019s network of 120,000 cameras, which can read license plates, are used by 7,000 law enforcement agencies across the country. Police departments say the systems help solve crimes. But reports of misuse by law enforcement, along with anxiety over the technology\u2019s ability to surveil ordinary people, have led to protests and prompted some cities to end their contracts with the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI realized we had a responsibility to do more,\u201d said Garrett Langley, chief executive of Atlanta-based Flock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: Flock Announces Privacy Updates to Its Car-Tracking Cameras by Aruni Soni (\u201cCritics say the measures are \u201cpublic relations\u201d and leave room for continued misuse.\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64654","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=64654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64655,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64654\/revisions\/64655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}