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EFF investigations reveal abuse of surveillance by Flock Safety: a look back at 2025.

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Dec 30, 2025
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Throughout 2025, EFF conducted groundbreaking research into Flock Safety's automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system, uncovering a system designed to enable mass surveillance and vulnerable to serious abuse. Our research led to investigations at the state and federal levels, resulted in significant legal challenges, and exposed a dangerous expansion into voice recognition technology. We documented how Flock's surveillance infrastructure allowed law enforcement to track protestors exercising their right to...

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Throughout 2025, EFF conducted groundbreaking research into Flock Safety's automated license plate recognition (ALPR) network, uncovering a system designed to enable mass surveillance and vulnerable to serious abuse. Our research led to investigations at the state and federal levels, resulted in significant legal challenges, and exposed a dangerous expansion into voice recognition technology. We documented how Flock's surveillance infrastructure allowed law enforcement to track protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, target Roma people with discriminatory stops, and spy on women seeking reproductive healthcare. Flock enables the surveillance of protesters. When we obtained datasets containing over 12 million searches, recorded by more than 3,900 entities between December 2024 and October 2025, the patterns were clear. Entities were logging hundreds of searches related to political demonstrations, such as the 50501 protests in February, the Hands Off protests in April, and the No Kings protests.

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