Those cameras you keep seeing? They're run by Flock Safety, a private company that tracks more than just your car's plates.

EMPORIA, Va. — Emporia, Virginia, is now the first "Flock Safe City" in the Commonwealth, rolling out a sweeping suite of public safety technologies that go far beyond license plate readers. The city, ...

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Ring, the Amazon-owned video doorbell company, has canceled its partnership with technology firm Flock Safety, the company said Thursday. The termination comes after weeks of backlash over the ...

Amazon has dropped plans to partner its Ring doorbell cameras with the police surveillance tech company Flock Safety, the companies said Thursday, days after Amazon aired a controversial ad for Ring ...

Amazon’s Ring says it is canceling its video doorbell partnership with police tech provider Flock Safety — following severe backlash over a Super Bowl ad that depicted a “surveillance state,” in the ...

Flock Safety draws plenty of criticism for how it conducts business, yet city leaders are not always above scrutiny either. Public safety contracts often test the limits of transparency and oversight.

According to many Pittsboro commissioners, the message from constituents was clear - town residents want Flock cameras gone.

It is a crazy scenario: corporate employees you’ve never met watching live feeds of your child’s gymnastics class, not for security, but to impress potential customers. That’s exactly what happened in ...