Flock surveillance cameras

Cited Ferndale audit data and security breaches to argue Flock cameras are invasive, insecure and misidentify plates, urging the city to say no.

A computer engineer argued Flock's safeguards are illusory and the company is a 'Trojan horse' with incentives to sell surveillance data.

Warned AI-driven license plate readers generate suspicion rather than investigate it and constitute authoritarian tracking infrastructure.

Questioned why a Flock camera is pointed into small Foss Park and warned that constant AI surveillance infringes freedom regardless of politics.