VIDIZMO Tells Cops It Can Add Facial Recognition to Flock Camera Data
404 Media · rss · 2026-09-29
404 Media obtained emails showing VIDIZMO, a decades-old video analysis company, pitching police on exporting Flock ALPR camera data into its platform for facial recognition, behavior prediction, and race/gender analysis — despite Flock CEO Garrett Langley's public pledge never to add facial recognition.
Key points:
- A May sales email to Johnson City, TN police promised one searchable platform across Flock and Axon data, searchable by face, vehicle, or object.
- CEO Nadeem Khan admitted the specific Flock-export tool isn't built yet but said the company "would love to do the integration" and believes facial recognition is "the way the world is going."
- Product docs describe watchlists that auto-name and record people on camera, plus filtering by age, gender, and seven race categories — which privacy expert Chris Gilliard called "appalling" given the well-documented inaccuracy of such classifications.
- VIDIZMO also markets demographic analysis to retailers for marketing purposes.
The piece highlights a recurring pattern: when one surveillance company draws a line, smaller players differentiate by offering the excluded capability, making industry self-restraint nearly unenforceable.
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