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Law enforcement officers are entering jokes and text slang like 'LMAO' into mass surveillance databases, while Flock Safety failed to adequately protect Boston's vehicle data during a 2025 pilot despite poor security.
Law enforcement officers are entering casual text slang and jokes directly into mass surveillance databases—entries like 'LMAO'—treating systems designed to track patterns and identify suspects as something to mess around in. Simultaneously, Flock Safety, a company providing vehicle surveillance technology to Boston police, failed to adequately secure its data during a 2025 pilot program despite flagged security problems. The combination shows both careless misuse of surveillance tools and weak security protecting the data they collect.
Officers typing jokes into surveillance databases means those databases contain junk data mixed with actual investigative information. That corrupts the reliability of the system and any analysis built on it. Meanwhile, the vendor securing that data—Flock Safety—was handling it sloppily. So you have officers not taking the tool seriously on one end and vendors not securing the data on the other. Mass surveillance only works if it's both used seriously and secured properly. Neither is happening here.
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