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LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire

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Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893947

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  1. etdznots

    The best part is that flock owns the cameras and the poles so even when the contract expires the cameras keep running and recording data that flock can sell to e.g. CHP, LASD, FBI, Palantir; and LAPD can just call them and access the data the flock scam was engineered to be resilient to political pressure by giving departments and jursidictions this fake exit ability while the data continues to be harvested, it is a noose that only tightens; the amount of flock cameras recording only ever goes up not down.

  2. declan_roberts

    I don't understand flock cameras in high crime areas. Every time somebody commits a heinous crime it's always like "they were arrested 72 times and were well known by the police" What's the point in helping the police catch criminals when they don't do anything after the fact!

  3. AbrahamParangi

    it needs to be illegal for the government to buy data or intelligence that it could not otherwise legally collect itself.

  4. someperson

    Are there any privacy-first security camera provider where it's the city that manages data access and uses it purely for local law enforcement purposes?

  5. cdrnsf

    What's really surprising is that it's the LAPD, of all agencies, that are making this decision while violating civil rights concerns. https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd-settlements/ > The top three payout categories totaled $345 million. Civil rights violations, police shootings, excessive use of force, and illegal searches collectively accounted for $183 million, almost half of the claim amounts. Plenty of civil rights violations, but Flock is too much even for them.

  6. lowmagnet

    They aren't crash compliant, aren't tagged with inspection stickers for signage, and the county/state road agencies could remove them for that alone.

  7. forks

    https://archive.is/zUou2

  8. hinkley

    One of the best sound designs ever invented was the 'you just lost' melody created for The Price is Right. That is not a non sequitur.