Flock Safety’s latest search tools give police several ways to find people on camera, not just the license plates on their cars. The capabilities sit inside a suite of software now at the center of dozens of police-stalking cases. WIRED collected and analyzed that software, and created a mockup of what officers see when interacting with the system.
\n\nAmong the tools is an AI-powered watchlist. An officer can cordon off an area of a city, and make the cameras inside it run a continuous, automated search for anyone fitting a written description.
\n\nOver the past year, Flock has faced a backlash to its technology. Police departments across the country have canceled contracts, and city councils that once approved Flock have quietly voted the cameras back out. Two members of Congress wrote to CEO Garrett Langley after a Texas deputy searched more than 83,000 cameras for a woman who had an abortion. And Illinois found the company had let federal immigration agents reach state camera data in violation of state law.
\n\nFlock answered in August with a package of changes that shortens the default period over which data are retained, requires case codes for every search, and adds automated auditing to…
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