2026-10-26 18:01SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse: Research DigestFlock Safety has built the largest license-plate recognition network in the country - more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states - and the consequences are now hitting in…2026-10-25 18:01SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse: Research DigestFlock Safety's August announcement of new privacy safeguards -- seven-day default data retention, offense-based sharing filters, and mandatory audit detection -- landed l…2026-10-22 03:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe antifa story in 2026 is not about street protests (it is about a legal architecture being built to turn a decentralized political tendency into a prosecutable categor…2026-10-22 03:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThe Flock Safety backlash is the most consequential domestic surveillance story of 2026 because it is collapsing on every front at once: cities are canceling contracts fa…2026-10-21 03:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThe Flock Safety backlash is no longer a niche privacy fight, it has become the most visible grassroots surveillance revolt in years, and it is cutting across the usual p…2026-10-20 23:15ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe antifa story in 2026 is really two stories running on parallel tracks that occasionally intersect. The first is the Trump administration's use of the "antifa" label a…2026-10-20 18:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThree years ago a city council voting to drop license-plate cameras was a curiosity. This week it is becoming the default: San Diego looks likely to join Tempe, Cave Cree…2026-10-20 10:04SURVEILLANCEFlock Cameras: Jackson Ends Its Contract, Tempe Votes a Ban, and the Surveillance Just Moves Next DoorThe point of a license-plate reader network was never that it photographs cars. It is that every car, everywhere, becomes searchable by any cop, anywhere, without a warra…2026-10-20 03:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestNPR (August 22, 2026): Dozens of cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, with about 100 cities having deactivated cameras, rejected deals, or cancelled co…2026-10-19 03:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThe Hill (August 26, 2026): Two Phoenix suburbs (Tempe and Cave Creek, Arizona) became the latest municipalities to terminate their contracts with Flock Safety, canceling…2026-10-18 18:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThe Detroit News (Oct 12, 2026): Madison Heights, Michigan, became the latest Metro Detroit community to sever ties with Flock Safety, announcing on Oct. 11 that it would…
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