Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

In May 2025, Flock was developing a new product called Nova that the company referred as a "public safety data platform," which would supplement ALPR data with information from data breaches, public records, and commercially available data in order to track specific individuals without a warrant, and which as of May 2025 was already in use by law enforcement in an Early Access program. The Electronic Frontier Foundation described Flock Nova as a "dystopian panopticon". You won't be able to take a nature walk without Flock and government employees knowing about it. I feel safer already.