Flock CEO Garrett Langley said the company’s gunshot-detection microphones detect “just gunshots,” but Flock’s website paints a far broader picture of what other ambient audio also gets picked up. Speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, the co-founder of the surveillance company defended Flock’s audio-collection product called Gunshot Detection, which listens for gunshots and other ambient audio…
Embattled surveillance know-how firm Flock Security unveiled a “beneficiant” severance bundle for voluntary worker departures on Friday, according to a report in Wired. Flock reportedly expects a good portion of its 1,500-person workforce to precise curiosity within the buyouts, and stated it is going to grant them to a majority of those that have an…
Flock tells WIRED that officers cannot run searches using prohibited attributes, including religion and nationality, and that an attempt to search prohibited terms “will be blocked.” Asked what circumstances produce a warning in those two categories instead, the company did not say. When a T-shirt or a bumper sticker draws a warning because the text…
The nation must discover a “compromise” between privateness and security, based on Flock Security CEO Garrett Langley. “When individuals discuss simply one in all these, privateness or security, they’re prioritizing the mistaken factor, and what now we have to prioritize as a rustic is compromise,” Langley stated throughout a recent interview with Fox News. “How…
WIRED analyzed the software by examining code Flock served from its own login portals. Loading those pages returned a user interface for screens that would ordinarily appear only after a police user signed in, letting reporters reconstruct portions of the authenticated applications, their prompts, search fields, tools, and controls, without actual access. The files appeared…
