One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
HotGarbage · hn · 2026-09-26
A Jezebel report discussed on Hacker News: Lindsey Isaacs of Palm Beach, Florida was arrested and jailed for 13 days over a vehicular homicide case after being wrongly linked by data from a Flock automatic license plate reader camera. She is now suing. The case underscores how a single bad match in mass surveillance camera networks can cost an innocent person their freedom.
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