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Flock's CEO told law enforcement that reporting about police using Flock surveillance cameras to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." The CEO is now accused of deliberately misleading cops.
Flock's CEO told law enforcement that reporting about police using Flock surveillance cameras to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." The CEO is now accused of deliberately misleading police with this denial.
What matters here is the credibility gap. Flock sells surveillance camera feeds to police departments. If police used those feeds to track someone for an abortion-related investigation, that's a significant privacy and reproductive rights issue. The CEO's public denial to police looks like an attempt to make the story go away without acknowledging whether it actually happened. Being caught in a deliberate lie to law enforcement creates liability for the company and feeds a broader concern: if the CEO will mislead police about this, what else might the company obscure? It also damages Flock's pitch to departments—trust that you're being told the truth about how your data is being used.
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