{"id":82810,"date":"2026-09-02T04:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/watch-flocks-rapidly-expanding-ai-surveillance-network-faces-growing-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T04:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:42:57","slug":"watch-flocks-rapidly-expanding-ai-surveillance-network-faces-growing-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/watch-flocks-rapidly-expanding-ai-surveillance-network-faces-growing-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Flock&#8217;s rapidly expanding AI surveillance network faces growing backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A network of AI licence plate readers run by a private company called Flock is rapidly expanding across the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are now about 130,000 across the country, mostly used by law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The expansion has led to privacy concerns and protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify examines Flock&#8217;s system and the growing backlash against it &#8211; as Jake Horton reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Krystal Campos. Graphics by Leo Scutt-Richter.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cvgy4ddx1q8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A network of AI licence plate readers run by a private company called Flock is rapidly expanding across the US. There are now about 130,000 across the country, mostly used by law enforcement agencies. The expansion has led to privacy concerns and protests. BBC Verify examines Flock&#8217;s system and the growing backlash against it &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[3078,16023,616,21616,3206,5650,12870,7379,1617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82812,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82810\/revisions\/82812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}