Flock Safety has been in the news a lot lately. The private surveillance company has come under fire in Georgia and across California for allegations of disturbing privacy violations.
It’s not surprising, considering some of the company’s seed money came from Peter Thiel, who started Palantir, which has now become one of the federal government’s largest, and most well-funded, partners in setting up a privatized surveillance state.
In the Bay Area, and across the country, Flock has set up an extensive network of cameras that track not just your license plate or your car, but your movements. New Flock technologies like Pan, Tilt, Zoom (PTZ) or FreeForm are focused on people rather than vehicles, documenting innocent people’s daily movements without even the suspicion of a crime…