Flocked!

Flocked: Adverb, to get “falsely reported to the police.” by an error in reading the the license plate on a car, and then reporting the wrong number to the police!

Used: "I got flocked by a ALPR and they reported me to the police."

September 03, 2026

Privacy, Surveillance, and the Algorithmic Panopticon

Privacy, Surveillance, and the Algorithmic Panopticon: How Privacy Has Been Eroded in the United States

The Legislative Erasure of Privacy: How We Got Here 

    Over the last two decades, the United States government has constructed an invisible, omnipresent web of communications surveillance. Under the guise of national security, intelligence agencies have normalized the mass collection of domestic metadata, utilizing programs to tap directly into the servers of major technology companies and monitor citizen communications. The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 fundamentally altered the privacy landscape, shifting the government's focus from targeted foreign threats to sweeping domestic surveillance capabilities.

 This infrastructure was further entrenched by the FISA Amendments Act and Section 702. Section 702, which was recently reauthorized despite intense congressional debate, allows the government to compel U.S. service providers to hand over data on non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States. However, this creates a massive loophole for intercepting domestic data, as the communications of Americans are routinely swept up in "incidental" collection. In addition, legislation like the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) mandated that telecommunications networks be built with inherent wiretapping capabilities, systematically eroding the Fourth Amendment in the digital space.

The trouble arises when the AI reading the plates can't make out a digit so it guesses! And it is not just local... a woman got hauled off to jail for something that happened on the other side of the country.

A Flock camera hit sent troopers to her door. They had the wrong car.

A Florida woman was jailed for nearly two weeks on triple homicide charges before her defense attorney’s digging sparked a reinvestigation

WBTV

By Emily Featherston and Brendan Keefe

Sep. 14, 2026

Lindsey Isaacs was asleep in her apartment when Florida Highway Patrol troopers began pounding on her door, ready to tell her they believed she was responsible for the deaths of three people.

Their evidence — images of Isaacs’ vehicle captured by a Flock Safety camera near the Deland, Florida scene and “marks” on the Durango they alleged were “consistent with the damage” to the hit vehicles.

“I thought I was getting set up. I didn’t understand what was going on,” Isaacs said.

Because of images of her license plate and claims of what would turn out to be non-existent physical evidence, Isaacs spent 13 days in jail after being arrested and denied bond for crimes she did not commit.

Notice in the lower right of the image.... the error rate of 71%!