How Do License Plate Cameras Work?
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How does Flock Safety work? 120,000 AI cameras are reading license plates across 49 states right now — and nearly half the country says it doesn't want them. In this Daily Debrief explainer, Nolan and Priya walk through how the Flock camera network actually works: what a Falcon camera captures when you drive past, how police search the cloud platform by plate, vehicle description, time, or place, and the rules that are supposed to govern the data — 30-day deletion, monthly audits, and case-numbered searches.Then the backlash: Flock has raised over $950 million and was last valued at $7.5 billion, yet it is cutting roughly 18% of its staff while cities cancel contracts one by one. Midland, Texas voted unanimously to end its Flock contract and pull 71 cameras; Dallas, Wylie, and Pflugerville have also walked away, Florida ordered the cameras off state highways, and more councils are voting now. Police say the system recovers stolen cars and solves crimes. Privacy advocates say it builds a map of everywhere ordinary people go. Who watches the watchers?Subscribe to Worth Knowing for your news every evening — new episodes of The Daily Debrief daily, plus Tech Pulse and Money Systems explainers every week.Check out Muse, your personal AI agent. Redeem my code in Settings within 48 hours of joining and we'll both get 1 billion Muse tokens.Code: 5JKBKJhttps://muse.ai/join
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