Flock Offers Buyouts as the Backlash Keeps Growing
Zach and Elizabeth dig into a Wired report on Flock's new voluntary separation program, offered to its roughly 1,500 employees amid mounting backlash, along with reporting that the company may need to sell off parts of its business to stay afloat.
They cover an EFF audit log review that caught officers searching ALPR networks with reasons like "IDK" and keyboard mashing, and a wider rundown of how little those "safeguards" actually fix.
From there, they look at a new front in AI-powered code enforcement: a company called City Detect is putting cameras on garbage trucks to assign homes a…
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