Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras
Flock's AI-enabled Condor surveillance cameras have been exposed for capturing and tracking individuals in public spaces with high-resolution facial recognition and behavioral monitoring capabilities. The incident reveals potential privacy violati...
My Take: The "AI-enabled" framing is doing a lot of work here to distract from what this actually is: mass biometric surveillance without meaningful consent mechanisms. If you're deploying anything that captures biometric data in public-facing environments, your legal team should be having very uncomfortable conversations about BIPA, GDPR Article 9, and whether "legitimate interest" will hold up when the class actions start rolling in.