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Flock Safety, an $8 billion startup backed by a16z and Tiger, has spent nine years promising to solve crime. At the same time it may have built the most pervasive surveillance network in American history.

On Fortune Daily, Cat Gioino explains the growing, bipartisan backlash.

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00:00There's a lot of outrage regarding Flock cameras.
00:02This is tracking you through the use of AI within the cameras.
00:06It's an automatic license plate reader company, so ALPRs.
00:10And it started off nine years ago by the CEO, Garrett Langley.
00:13He decided to build a camera system for the local police department
00:17in his home neighborhood in Atlanta.
00:18It exploded into over 120,000 users in over 5,000 jurisdictions.
00:24Flock is adamant and says the police departments, the HOAs,
00:27the private entities that have contracts, own the data.
00:30So it actually says, we don't owe your data, our customers do.
00:33That's one of its catchphrases.
00:34100%, that's exactly what it says.
00:35Gun owners, for example, are one of the biggest groups that are in that position of Flock.
00:39What's not a right or left issue, it's a bipartisan issue,
00:41but they really think about it.
00:42They don't want to be tracked because all you could really do
00:44is easily go into this computer system and search cars with gun racks.
00:48The CEO and Flock are saying this is what comes down to it.
00:52Like your privacy, yes, it's still necessary for your life,
00:55but it comes second to the public safety, to the public security aspect of life.
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