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How Flock Cameras Took Over America

How Flock Cameras Took Over America

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This summer, Fernando Alfonso, the Texas editor for The New York
Times, got in a car with a man named Philip. They drove around
the suburban streets of Dallas searching for traffic cameras —
not for a red-light camera, or a speed-trap camera, but something
new, an automatic license-plate reader made by a company called
Flock.

Law enforcement officials say these cameras are essential to
fighting crime, but Phillip and people like him, who have located
100,000 flock cameras all over the country, see them as something
else: the beginnings of a surveillance state.

Today, Kashmir Hill, a technology and privacy writer at The New
York Times, discusses the company behind the cameras and the
mounting backlash.

Guest: Kashmir Hill, a technology and privacy
writer at The New York Times.

Background reading: One thing Texan liberals and conservatives
agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.

Photo: Desiree Rios for The New York Times

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