Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech
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The short version
- It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didn’t need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities.
- Then it realized there was far more money to be made by courting governments, rather than the richest parts of the private sector.
The story
Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didn’t need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it realized there was far more money to be made by courting governments, rather than the richest parts of the private sector.
A few years later […]
How other outlets covered this
Compare allAlto found this story at 3 outlets. Same event, different framing — compare the headlines.
- TechdirtFlock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Techabout 4 hours ago
- The Verge‘No company is going to go to jail for you’: Proton’s CTO on balancing privacy, policy, and trustabout 1 month ago
- ZeroHedgeFutures Rise, Oil Drops As Markets Ignore Latest Middle East Airstrikesabout 2 months ago
How this story developed
Full timelineAlto has tracked this across 4 days of coverage from 3 outlets.
- Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance TechYou are here
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