Flock Safety replies to concerns regarding privacy rights
On 28 October 2025, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Flock Safety to respond to allegations reported regarding risks to privacy and other rights associated with Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers. According to these reports, Flock Safety is accused of creating and promoting a surveillance infrastructure that is susceptible to abuse, with weak human rights safeguards, inadequate oversight, and routes for powerful government agencies (at both the local and federal levels) to exploit it. Allegations from civil society suggest that limited technical updates and promises of conducting client trainings do not address the deeper, systemic risks linked to the technology.
Flock Safety responded, stating: "Flock Safety was founded on dual principles: law enforcement should use cutting edge technologies to prevent and solve crime; and these technologies should safeguard civil liberties. All of our products have the customization, safeguards, and data ownership that allow individual, unique communities to use those products in a way that is not prescribed by us, a private technology company, but by the elected officials and individuals in that community..."
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