One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

In the months since Flock cameras have helped put an easily recognized and hated name to the broader threat of a deeply repressive technological surveillance state– Darth Vader activist performance art and all–I’ve been waiting for a story to come along that would truly crystalize the stakes involved here. Flock cameras, and the tech they now culturally represent, automated license plate readers (ALPRs), are increasingly hated in bipartisan fashion, but it hasn’t felt like there’s been that one news story that could succinctly demonstrate for the average person exactly how dangerous the technology can be for personal liberty. Until now, that is.