Flock gives 2,000 organizations access to one suburb's plate data
Several dozen Alpharetta cameras feed a national sharing network whose permissions, searches and safeguards now pose a governance test for Flock's founders.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: WIRED
Why it matters
Flock's shared data network is both its commercial advantage and its hardest governance problem. Alpharetta shows how several dozen local cameras can create permissions for thousands of outside organizations, making access controls, offense filters and audit systems core infrastructure rather than compliance add-ons.
Data from several dozen Flock Safety cameras in Alpharetta, Georgia, is accessible to more than 2,000 outside organizations, WIRED reported on August 28th. The finding shows how the network built by co-founders Garrett Langley, Paige Todd and Matt Feury can extend far beyond the streets where a customer installs its cameras.…