The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...

Santa Cruz is debating whether to terminate its contract with Flock due to concerns about data sharing with out-of-state agencies, including ICE, and privacy issues. Santa Cruz is debating whether to ...

The curious birds, known for their bobbing walks and kazoo-like calls, have drawn a crowd to Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan ...

Left-wing groups, including one representing colleg professors, produced a student toolkit encouraging campaigns against ICE ...

Flock Safety license plate reader cameras are now in use around the city of Pensacola Despite its controversy, the cameras have helped the PPD find missing persons and make arrests in an attempted ...

Flock Safety, a company that sells thousands of license plate-reading cameras to police department and homeowners associations across Texas, violated state law by operating without a license, ...

A Flock Safety camera is seen on March 16 on the corner of Hill Street, Ida Street and Spring Avenue in Troy. The city has disabled a feature that shares data collected by the cameras with a ...

A hot potato: A growing number of US cities are ending contracts with Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based company whose AI-powered camera systems have rapidly proliferated across the country. Originally ...

The cameras have come under scrutiny after Richmond's police chief discovered that data was made available to outside federal agencies. The revelation caused the cameras to be disabled in December.

We introduce a biologically inspired bird-flocking experimental framework for text summarization that identifies the most salient sentences using contextual information, sentence position, and ...

A Flock Safety camera is seen Monday on the corner of River and Congress streets in Troy. TROY — Diedre Shea doesn’t want to live near a Flock Safety camera. The controversial, automatic license plate ...

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify that the Boulder Police Department no longer shares Flock license plate data with the Loveland Police Department. Mass surveillance has arrived ...