The surveillance & liberty brief

Crow's Nest tracks license-plate readers, facial recognition, police surveillance and the wider civil-liberties beat, town by town. One free email each weekday morning, every line linked to the reporting it came from.

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Hackers dump Flock camera data

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · 27 stories · view as email
Top
The pattern
Officers in three police departments faced discipline, arrest, or exposure for misusing Flock license-plate reader search systems.
Under the radar
Flock watch
Surveillance & Privacy
Coming Up
Fri Sep 18
Fri Sep 18
DeadlineDepartment of Homeland Security — Proposals due for DHS procurement of government-wide biometric capture devices (biometricupdate.com)
Speech & Press
Useful
Atlas of Surveillance(atlasofsurveillance.org)
EFF's searchable record of which surveillance technologies each police department has bought, by city and agency.
Past issues

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