surveillance
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Judge Sara Hill called Flock-style ALPR history indiscriminate mass surveillance and suppressed a warrantless month of travel data.
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A Flock installer called police on a reporter filming in public—the discomfort of being watched that millions feel about license plate readers.
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Apple Watch Series 12 Audio Intelligence listens inside a Secure Exclave. The architecture is not conventional recording, but Siri Recap still raises hard social questions.
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Littleton, Massachusetts says Flock Safety reactivated license plate cameras the town had deactivated for privacy review—without notice—raising whether municipalities actually control the surveillance systems they pay for.
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Northwestern engineers built Phantom Twist, a single-motor drone that spins its body up to 25 times per second so human vision sees haze instead of a craft—clever AI-assisted design for wildlife and infrastructure work, with clear surveillance implications.
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404 Media documents show Verona, Wisconsin asked Flock to remove ALPR cameras after the contract ended, then bagged them while waiting—arguing surveillance gear should stop collecting data and leave promptly when a city votes it out.
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A Masked Vigilante Is Taking On Flock’s Growing Surveillance Network (opens on the publisher’s site)
The Guardian covers NoMark and others targeting Flock Safety cameras—arguing the real story is searchable mass vehicle tracking of innocent drivers, and that invasive ALPR networks need warrants, short retention, audits, and public approval before becoming everyday infrastructure.