NYT: How Flock Safety's AI Cameras Became Public Enemy No. 1
evanFFTF · reddit · 2026-09-19
A New York Times opinion piece examines Flock Safety, the AI-powered license-plate-recognition company whose camera network spread across American communities and morphed from a neighborhood crime tool into mass-surveillance infrastructure — triggering a privacy backlash that has made it the country's top privacy villain.
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