{
  "id": 19106,
  "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-a-growing-surveillance-backlash",
  "title": "Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash",
  "summary": "The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and police abuse. Several changes aim directly at a problem that has made recent headlines:…",
  "authors": "James O'Donnell",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T13:41:10.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-14T05:10:49.168Z",
  "source_slug": "mit-tr",
  "source_name": "MIT Technology Review",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.technologyreview.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19106",
  "original_url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-a-growing-surveillance-backlash",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}