Hackernews posts about FLoC

FLoC is a Google-proposed tracking technology that uses cookies to aggregate users' browsing data and sell targeted ads based on their interests.

1. Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed (ipvm.com)
   642 points by jhonovich 6 days ago | 358 comments
2. Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast (www.engadget.com)
   297 points by SanjayMehta about 5 hours ago | 215 comments
3. Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime (timesofsandiego.com)
   88 points by loteck 21 days ago | 46 comments
4. Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean (economist.com)
   65 points by andsoitis 13 days ago | 56 comments
5. Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene (arstechnica.com)
   53 points by Cider9986 20 days ago | 6 comments
6. Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People (www.404media.co)
   31 points by Brajeshwar 18 days ago | 1 comments
7. Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants? (www.eff.org)
   19 points by jhonovich 3 days ago | discuss
8. How do flocking birds and schools of fish move? (www.nyu.edu)
   17 points by hhs 9 days ago | 5 comments
9. Flock Misappropriates MythBusters (ipvm.com)
   14 points by jhonovich 13 days ago | 3 comments
10. Bitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs (www.reuters.com)
    11 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 23 days ago | 4 comments
11. Dave Eggers doesn't need a smartphone, the internet or your Flock camera (www.sfgate.com)
    11 points by mikhael 16 days ago | discuss
12. Flock Safety Price List [pdf] (www.omniapartners.com)
    10 points by ourmandave 21 days ago | discuss
13. Flock Leaked Cops' License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing (www.404media.co)
    8 points by Brajeshwar 16 days ago | discuss
14. Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting (www.404media.co)
    7 points by cdrnsf 16 days ago | 1 comments
15. Flock CEO: "They're Gonna Enforce Immigration No Matter What Flock Does" (ipvm.com)
    6 points by jhonovich 4 days ago | 4 comments
16. This pole is worse than any Flock Camera [video][38 mins] (www.youtube.com)
    6 points by Bender 9 days ago | discuss
17. China cracks down on Western AI models while US companies flock to DeepSeek (www.techradar.com)
    6 points by giuliomagnifico 16 days ago | discuss
18. Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean (www.economist.com)
    6 points by andsoitis 16 days ago | discuss
19. Flock Blocks Itself from Wayback Machine: How Companies Can Erase Their History (ipvm.com)
    4 points by jhonovich 18 days ago | 1 comments
20. Flock-Powered Police LPR Abuse Triples at an Agency Once They Look (ipvm.com)
    4 points by jhonovich 2 days ago | discuss
21. Flock says its cameras don't track people. Training videos say otherwise.[video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by jupr 5 days ago | discuss
22. Flock Compares Itself to Facebook (ipvm.com)
    3 points by jhonovich 11 days ago | 1 comments
23. Framingham won't renew Flock Safety contract after months of resident opposition (www.boston.com)
    3 points by pilingual 3 days ago | discuss
24. High School Student Journalists Investigate Flock (scotscoop.com)
    2 points by coloneltcb 2 days ago | discuss
25. Mapping Every Flock License Plate Reader Near US World Cup Stadiums (www.wired.com)
    2 points by jhonovich 17 days ago | discuss
26. Eyes on Flock: Flock Safety Transparency Data Aggregation (eyesonflock.com)
    2 points by jupr 18 days ago | discuss
27. Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs (github.com)
    3 points by kamaludu about 20 hours ago | 1 comments
28. Police accused of misusing AI license-plate tracking systems (www.tomshardware.com)
    6 points by Soumya_Max 14 days ago | 1 comments
29. We're Fighting Mass Surveillance Tech–and Winning (www.eff.org)
    6 points by Brajeshwar 25 days ago | discuss
30. Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators (www.wsj.com)
    468 points by Vaslo 8 days ago | 394 comments