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Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

A federal judge ruled that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff's deputy violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights by searching the Flock Safety license-plate database without a warrant, targeting her car because it had a California plate. Judge Sara Hill suppressed the 91 pounds of meth found in the subsequent search as fruit of the poisonous tree, and wrote that Flock constitutes "indiscriminate mass surveillance" that passively catalogs all vehicles. Florida and Texas have dropped the tech, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Block Flock Act, and the company has offered voluntary employee buyouts.

Source: Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' — TechCrunch

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Topics: surveillance · privacy · flock · tech · 4thamendment