{
  "id": 11399,
  "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices",
  "title": "Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices",
  "summary": "Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers — has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.” In October 2025, EFF warned the public that Flock was rolling out a new feature called “Distress Detection” that would be deployed through their acoustic gunshot detection devices (formerly known as Flock Raven, now called Audio Detection)",
  "authors": "Matthew Guariglia",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-17T17:05:57.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-18T05:10:55.931Z",
  "source_slug": "eff",
  "source_name": "EFF Deeplinks",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.eff.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11399",
  "original_url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}