Across American cities and suburbs, a quiet infrastructure of artificial intelligence has taken root — nearly 100,000 cameras photographing every passing vehicle, weaving a surveillance lattice that few residents voted for and fewer still fully understand. The company behind it, Flock Safety, frames its technology as a tool of rescue and recovery, and the evidence of lives found and crimes solved is real. Yet the same architecture that reunites a lost grandmother with her family can be turned, by a single officer with a grudge or a state with an agenda, into an instrument of control. The vanda
Flock's AI surveillance cameras face growing backlash as privacy concerns mount
Immigrants and vulnerable populations report fear of surveillance being used for deportation tracking; one woman changed her daily commute patterns due to surveillance anxiety.