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…