Primary documents
- ‘We want to be direct with our community’: Littleton Police address reactivation of Flock cameras
News Report · 2026
Lowell Sun
Lowell Sun, August 2026: Littleton's police chief said Flock technicians restored power to cameras the town had shut off, under Flock's standard procedure. He said the…
- 12 On Your Side Investigates: No supervisor approval required before RCSO Flock misuse cases
News Report · 2026
WRDW News 12
WRDW, September 2026: Richmond County deputies needed no supervisor approval to search Flock ("They could just enter it," the sheriff said); about 330 deputies had access…
- 2 Felony Charges For Joliet Police Lt. Jeremy Harrison As He Appeals His Termination
News Report · 2026
Patch
Patch, October 2026: the Joliet police chief's termination notice alleged Harrison ran about 153 searches of a female officer's plate in July 2025 using false reasons…
- 625 ILCS 5/2-130. Automated license plate readers
Government Record · 2023
Illinois General Assembly
Illinois law (625 ILCS 5/2-130, from Public Act 103-540) barring sharing plate reader data with other states to enforce laws against reproductive health care or to…
- A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away.
News Report · 2026
Times of San Diego
Times of San Diego, June 2026: police matched a red Alfa Romeo by make and color with no plate, arrested two men five miles from the…
- A Look Behind the Screens: Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services
Government Record · 2024
Federal Trade Commission staff
The 6(b) report covers practices during 2019–2020 at nine companies and describes extensive data collection, advertising uses, algorithms, data analytics and AI, and insufficient privacy and…
- A Majority of Teens Have Experienced Some Form of Cyberbullying
Document · 2018
Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center
Pew’s 59% combines six experiences: offensive name-calling, false rumors, unsolicited explicit images, constant monitoring-type questions, physical threats, and nonconsensual sharing of explicit images. The survey covered…
- Access Now: Spotify’s Emotion-Recognition Patent (2021)
Document · 2021
Access Now
Access Now, April 2021: Spotify said it never used its voice-emotion patent and has no plans to. Access Now said that is not enough and warned…
- ACLU v. Clapper, 785 F.3d 787 (2d Cir. 2015)
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The federal appeals court ruling that the NSA's bulk telephone metadata program exceeded what Congress authorized under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
- ACLU v. Clapper, No. 14-42-cv
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The Second Circuit held the bulk telephone-metadata program exceeded Section 215. It did not issue an injunction at that stage.
- Adverse Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, House Report 117-486
Government Record · 2022
U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
The report reproduces the September 29, 2021 National School Boards Association letter suggesting possible domestic-terrorism or hate-crime classification for malice, violence, and threats.
- Advisory Concerning CPD’s Predictive Risk Models
Government Record · 2020
City of Chicago Office of Inspector General
Chicago Inspector General, January 2020: the police department spent $3.8 million in federal grants on computer models that scored people's likelihood of being a shooter or…
- AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
News Report · 2025
Forbes
Forbes's written September 2025 profile of Flock, in which Langley described people threatening the company as "terrorists." He apologized in July 2026.
- Air Force Patent 6,470,214: Radio Frequency Hearing Effect (2002)
Government Record · 2002
James P. O’Loughlin; Diana L. Loree
U.S. Patent 6,470,214 (2002), assigned to the Air Force: a method for producing intelligible sound inside a person's head using the radio frequency hearing effect. A…
- ALPRs Toolkit
Document · 2026
DeFlock
DeFlock's toolkit for communities working to stop or remove plate reader cameras.
- An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook
Document · 2018
Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer, Facebook
Facebook estimated that information on up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
- Andrea Matwyshyn: The Internet of Bodies (2019)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Andrea M. Matwyshyn
The law review article that defined the Internet of Bodies: a network of human bodies whose integrity and functionality rely at least in part on the…
- Another Richmond County deputy arrested for misusing license plate reader system
News Report · 2026
WRDW News 12
WRDW, October 2026: Richmond County deputy Corey Whitfield was arrested and charged with misuse of license plate readers and violation of oath of office, following six…
- Antifa Cell Members Indicted in Prairieland Shooting (November 14, 2025)
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas (U.S. Department of Justice)
Justice Department announcement of the first federal terrorism indictment against Antifa cell members, charged with providing material support to terrorists over the July 4, 2025 attack…
- APD License Plate Reader
Government Record · 2025
Austin Office of the City Auditor
Austin's City Auditor reviewed the police plate reader program for March to December 2024. It counted 13,122 hotlist matches and 165 arrests, and could not verify…
- Are Flock and Palantir both owned by billionaire Peter Thiel?
News Report · 2026
Cassis Tingley / Gigafact
A Colorado Sun fact check: Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir but never sat on Flock's board and did not help start the company. Founders Fund, his firm,…
- Are Flock Products Discriminatory?
Document
Flock Safety
Flock's "Are Flock Products Discriminatory?" page claiming its products do not identify race. Company claims.
- Assange v. USA: High Court Judgment [2024] EWHC 700 (Admin) (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
High Court of Justice of England and Wales, King’s Bench Division, Administrative Court
High Court of England and Wales, March 2024: put off a decision on Assange's renewed request to appeal his extradition on three grounds for 55 days,…
- Assembly Bill 56, Chapter 671, Statutes of 2025: Social Media Warning Law
Government Record · 2025
California Legislature
California enacted black-box warnings for covered users not reasonably determined to be over 17, initially each day and after three hours/hourly thereafter. The official California Attorney…
Books
6G: The Invisible Prison – The Dark Truth Behind the Next Technological Leap6G is presented as the next step in connectivity. The book examines what the architecture enables beyond bandwidth, the health questions regulators have declined to revisit,…
Confessed Conspiracies: Top 10 Government Deceptions and the Truths That Changed HistoryTen government operations that were dismissed as conspiracy theory and later confirmed in the official record. Each one documented, dated, and sourced to the admission.
Directed Energy Weapons: The Secret War in Plain SightMicrowave, laser, and acoustic systems, their development history, and their documented deployment in both military and domestic contexts. The book covers what the technology can do,…
EV Radiation Trap: Why Your Electric Vehicle is a Rolling EMF Nightmare of Constant Surveillance and Financial DeceptionThe book measures what an electric vehicle cabin actually contains: electromagnetic fields from the battery and drive system, off-gassing from synthetic interiors, and telemetry that reports…
Knowledge Is Power: How DARPA’s Banned Surveillance Program Became Big TechCongress defunded DARPA's Total Information Awareness program in 2003. The book documents where its architecture went: into Palantir, Google, Facebook, and the broader Big Tech stack.…
Palantir: Eyes of The Machine – The Rise of the Digital OraclePalantir was built for the post-9/11 intelligence market, funded by Peter Thiel, and seeded with In-Q-Tel money. The book documents its contracts across intelligence, immigration enforcement,…
Robotic Subjugation: When the Domestic Assistant Turns into a SoldierHumanoid robots are entering homes and workplaces under a convenience framing. The book examines what a software update can convert them into, the corporate and government…
The 15-Minute City Trap: How Sustainability became the Language of EnslavementThe fifteen-minute city arrives as convenience and climate policy. Its roots run to early twentieth-century planners with authoritarian aims, and its modern push comes through the…
The Amazon Effect: A Convenience Paradox – How One Company Conquered Retail, Logistics, and YouHow one company took control of retail, logistics, and the infrastructure underneath both, and what that consolidation costs the economy that permitted it.
The Data Siege: Exposing the Machine in Your Backyard and the Industrial Assault on Our Water, Our Peace, and Our Way of LifeThe cloud is a building. The book documents how AI data centers arrive in residential and agricultural areas through shell companies and NDAs that gag local…
The Flock Files: How a $7.5 Billion Startup Built America’s Surveillance Grid – and How We Stop ItDennis Schultz
Flock Safety started as an Android phone taped to a window and became over 100,000 cameras scanning 20 billion license plates a month. Funded by Peter…
The Silicon Cage: How Google Trapped the Truth, Sold Your Soul, and Built a Surveillance EmpireGoogle's control over search ranking, and what neutrality means when one company sets the boundaries of findable knowledge.
Wearables: Biometric Keys to the Transhumanist Cage and the Birth of the HiveFitness trackers and smartwatches collect continuous biometric data, and the book follows where it goes. Covers the insurance and employment applications already in use, the psychological…
