Flock Safety built a fake police department to test searches on real cameras

Audit logs show sales and testing accounts queried live networks for crowds, masks, political stickers and religious symbols.

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Primary source: 404 Media

Why it matters

Flock Safety's live-camera tests show why surveillance guardrails cannot depend mainly on warnings and audits. Demo accounts need hard separation from production networks before employees or customers can run sensitive searches.

A dark, modern surveillance camera is mounted high on an urban building, subtly watching a blurred city street below.

Garrett Langley (@glangley) built Flock Safety around a direct promise: cameras could give police useful evidence while software, audit logs and local oversight kept the resulting surveillance accountable.…

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