A federal judge calls Flock's plate-reader network mass surveillance [Oct 3 2026]
A federal judge in the Northern District of Oklahoma ruled that a sheriff's deputy's warrantless search of Flock's licence-plate reader network violated the Fourth Amendment. Judge Sara Hill wrote that the search gave the deputy "more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts across the country for an entire month" and described the technology as "a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance". 404 Media says audit logs it has viewed show more than a hundred thousand warrantless searches of the Flock system every month, and that the ruling sets no binding precedent. Inside the same 24…
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