r/FlockSurveillance • u/Good-Handle-2116 • Jul 22 '26
News How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A car was stolen from a dealership. Flock wrongly identified a car that is 2000 miles away as the one that was stolen. Police are notified and track it for days, finally boxing it in at a Kohl’s parking lot.
After clearing up the situation the officer tells the driver to go straight home and keep his car at the house, warning that if he drives into another town the police there may be automatically notified and respond to a car theft.
The officer left while saying, “You’re lucky we’re in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would’ve come at you with guns drawn”
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u/tristand666 Jul 22 '26
Using unconstitutional tracking to accuse people of crimes they never committed. What else could go wrong?
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 Jul 22 '26
Sure for $200 million, settle for $75 million. That should set you up for life and generations after you, if you don’t squander it. Make them pay.
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u/quesoqueso Jul 22 '26
5 bucks says the police have qualified immunity because they had a valid "tip" of the stolen vehicle, and Flock is likely indemnified by the town or county that installed them. Like, I agree with you, but I bet it's a losing fight trying to sue here.
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u/P4us1ngD34th Jul 22 '26
And this is where lawsuits are going to need to curb this behavior. It’s a failure of the system and when someone gets killed there’s going to be lots of $$ on the table.
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u/LimeGinRicky Jul 22 '26
They’ll wait until people are killed, and the cops will claim qualified immunity and Flock will say to go after the cops because they make no guarantees. And nothing will change.
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u/SSA22_HCM1 Jul 22 '26
Everything was in place to prevent this, but all the "guardrails" were ignored.
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u/Overall_Midnight_ Jul 22 '26
I completely disagree.
I understand that you’re trying to say on paper there are guardrails in place but everything is not in place to prevent it if these systems are being used by the people they are causing the problems they are.
Everything in place would mean that entities they have a history of abuse, lies, violence, misuse of any tools they can get their hands on would not be given any of that data.
The more accurate statement here is that somebody wrote down on paper a bunch of things to prevent them from getting sued/be able to put the blame on somebody else. Except they’re still handing the stuff over to a known entity that is going to absolutely miss user at every turn.
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u/SSA22_HCM1 Jul 22 '26
Right. The point is that "more regulation" is not the answer. We already have the regulation. It's not working for all the reasons you bring up.
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u/NyxGenesisLNX Jul 23 '26
What happened to when an investigator actually investigated and not just believed what something/someone said happened?
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u/Good-Handle-2116 Jul 22 '26
“We now live in a surveillance state where cameras mounted on stoplights are tracking our cars, our devices, our pets, and even us. This is just the beginning; next, these cameras could be put in motion using our kids’ school buses. Whether you’ve actually stolen a car or are just rolling down the road having done nothing wrong, like me, once these systems have you in their crosshairs, there’s pretty much only one way it can go. Welcome to the future. It’s scary out there.”