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Cambridge City Council will be CANCELLING its contract with mass surveillance company FLOCK – other municipalities should do the same.
TAKE ACTION: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
TAKE ACTION: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Cambridge City Council will be CANCELLING its contract with mass surveillance company FLOCK – other municipalities should do the same.
TAKE ACTION: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
TAKE ACTION: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
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New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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Massachusetts drivers are being tracked and their data is being shared nationwide — thanks to police using license plate readers (LPRs) made by Flock and other tech companies.
Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
Email Your Municipal Leaders: Flock license plate readers threaten our privacy and safety
mobilize.aclum.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Massachusetts drivers are being tracked and their data is being shared nationwide — thanks to police using license plate readers (LPRs) made by Flock and other tech companies.
Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
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Flock’s mass-surveillance machine is a rapidly expanding location tracking system - and a privacy nightmare.
Communities across the nation are calling for lawmakers to protect us from this unwarranted government surveillance. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Communities across the nation are calling for lawmakers to protect us from this unwarranted government surveillance. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Police cameras track billions of license plates per month. Communities are pushing back.
More than 5,000 law enforcement departments across the U.S. use interconnected Flock Safety cameras to track residents’ movements.
www.nbcnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Flock’s mass-surveillance machine is a rapidly expanding location tracking system - and a privacy nightmare.
Communities across the nation are calling for lawmakers to protect us from this unwarranted government surveillance. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Communities across the nation are calling for lawmakers to protect us from this unwarranted government surveillance. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Controversial license plate readers made by the company Flock Safety are still being installed by Chestnut Hill Realty in South Brookline, but whether the town’s police department will be able to use a stream of real-time information from them remains up in the air.
brookline.news/select-board...
brookline.news/select-board...
Select Board weighs police use of data from real estate company's license plate readers - Brookline.News
Controversial license plate readers made by the company Flock Safety are still being installed by Chestnut Hill Realty in South Brookline, but whether the town’s police department will be able to use ...
brookline.news
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Controversial license plate readers made by the company Flock Safety are still being installed by Chestnut Hill Realty in South Brookline, but whether the town’s police department will be able to use a stream of real-time information from them remains up in the air.
brookline.news/select-board...
brookline.news/select-board...
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OPINION: PERSONAL DATA HAS become the de facto currency of the digital age, and we’ve surrendered more control over our lives than we may have realized. Our every click is treated […]
Lawmakers must resist Big Tech fearmongering, pass data privacy bill - CommonWealth Beacon
PERSONAL DATA HAS become the de facto currency of the digital age, and we’ve surrendered more control over our lives than we may have realized. Our every
buff.ly
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
OPINION: PERSONAL DATA HAS become the de facto currency of the digital age, and we’ve surrendered more control over our lives than we may have realized. Our every click is treated […]
Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location – The Data for Justice Project | ACLU of Massachusetts
data.aclum.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
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“[It] means a digital police state wherein law enforcement officials in far-flung jurisdictions outside of Massachusetts can track protesters, political opponents, immigrants, patients, and others not suspected of any crime and use the information to hurt them.”
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location – The Data for Justice Project | ACLU of Massachusetts
data.aclum.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“[It] means a digital police state wherein law enforcement officials in far-flung jurisdictions outside of Massachusetts can track protesters, political opponents, immigrants, patients, and others not suspected of any crime and use the information to hurt them.”
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
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@wendyweiser.bsky.social explains the dangers of a federal bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote. It would “exclude, really, tens of millions of people and would just upend access to voter registration.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
GOP laws aimed at very rare noncitizen voting could hit eligible voters
Republicans in Congress and state legislatures are charging forward with plans to require Americans to prove they are citizens.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
@wendyweiser.bsky.social explains the dangers of a federal bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote. It would “exclude, really, tens of millions of people and would just upend access to voter registration.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...