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Aug 3, 2026
A police chief in Georgia used Flock's cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her teen daughter nearly 600 times. “Don’t worry I’m not tracking you or some weird stalker shit," he texted her. After hi...
SummaryAn investigation found at least 50 police officers misusing Flock's network of 120,000 license-plate cameras to stalk ex-partners and track intimate details of their lives, including one Georgia police chief who tracked his ex-girlfriend nearly 600 times before his arrest and suicide. Flock's leadership downplayed the abuse as inevitable human error and an infinitesimally small problem, despite the cameras capturing 20 billion scans monthly and enabling surveillance violations ranging from monitoring abortion access to tracking relationship activities.4 tweets1 min read