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 Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public (www.aclu.org)
   470 points by StatsAreFun 23 days ago | 170 comments
2. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (www.valleynewslive.com)
   397 points by NDlurker 8 days ago | 248 comments
3. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (www.404media.co)
   330 points by cdrnsf 7 days ago | 194 comments
4. The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras (www.theguardian.com)
   274 points by bookofjoe 18 days ago | 169 comments
5. Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide (guessingheadlights.com)
   260 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 238 comments
6. New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner (newbedfordlight.org)
   198 points by newsomix9xl about 20 hours ago | 93 comments
7. A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras (www.cltampa.com)
   160 points by UmYeahNo 18 days ago | 85 comments
8. How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (www.404media.co)
   145 points by cdrnsf 8 days ago | 9 comments
9. Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (www.wtoc.com)
   139 points by chirau 3 days ago | 137 comments
10. A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon (www.404media.co)
    103 points by cdrnsf 6 days ago | 41 comments
11. Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop (www.thedrive.com)
    94 points by f154hfds 9 days ago | 114 comments
12. After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (www.asiae.co.kr)
    88 points by mapping365 8 days ago | 118 comments
13. DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired (www.ajc.com)
    81 points by pir8life4me 24 days ago | 40 comments
14. Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data (flowingdata.com)
    79 points by skadamat 1 day ago | 30 comments
15. Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists' (www.forbes.com)
    76 points by chaps 26 days ago | 42 comments
16. Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison (www.11971.com)
    74 points by mediaeater 10 days ago | 37 comments
17. California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (www.techdirt.com)
    69 points by hn_acker 6 days ago | 10 comments
18. Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't (www.nytimes.com)
    64 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 45 comments
19. Flock Safety had a car journalist stalked, wrongly accused, and detained (www.thedrive.com)
    55 points by monksy 26 days ago | 2 comments
20. I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes (www.thedrive.com)
    54 points by CharlesW 20 days ago | 10 comments
21. Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech (www.404media.co)
    48 points by cdrnsf 9 days ago | 15 comments
22. Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars (www.404media.co)
    45 points by Brajeshwar 26 days ago | 6 comments
23. Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed (gizmodo.com)
    44 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 3 comments
24. Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras (www.foiaball.com)
    29 points by hn_acker about 4 hours ago | 6 comments
25. Flock Pitched a Plan to Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers into Roaming Surveillance (www.404media.co)
    29 points by cdrnsf 5 days ago | 2 comments
26. Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags over Its Flock Cameras (www.404media.co)
    26 points by Jimmc414 21 days ago | 3 comments
27. 90k Flock cameras have gone up in the US: What they track and how to check (www.zdnet.com)
    22 points by CrankyBear 22 days ago | discuss
28. Police searched Twin Cities Flock cameras during ICE surge (www.startribune.com)
    20 points by bradleyankrom 23 days ago | 5 comments
29. What Happened When Flock Came to My Town (www.404media.co)
    15 points by HotGarbage 21 days ago | 2 comments
30. Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials (www.404media.co)
    15 points by amai 5 days ago | 1 comments