00:00Flock Safety runs license plate scanners in hundreds of cities, and a new website, Have I Been Flocked, lets people check whether those cameras tracked their car, and Flock is allegedly trying to take it down.
00:10Now, the site exists because multiple police departments accidentally leaked unredacted audit logs.
00:16Those logs exposed 2.3 million license plates, tens of millions of police searches, including lookups tied to suspects, victims, and even queries for terms like protest, which returned 985 results.
00:27The site's creator says he's only reorganizing information that was already public.
00:31Flock, however, claims it's a website doxing cops during active investigations, and has tried to pressure web hosts into removing it, claiming it threatens public safety.
00:40Cloudfair reviewed the complaints, and declined to take it down.
00:43And at the same time, Flock has reduced what it records in its audit logs, limiting what future public records requests can reveal.
00:49So who do you think is in the wrong here? Police, Flock, or the site's creator?
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