Flock Safety license plate readers are spreading across Middle Tennessee, helping police departments solve crimes, but also sparking a growing debate over privacy, data collection, and who is watching the watchers.
Privacy concerns drew multiple people to last week’s Murfreesboro City Council meeting to speak against Flock’s license plate readers.
Farhang Heydari, an associate professor at Vanderbilt Law School, said the technology creates significant risks because of the scale of the data it collects…