The debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety has only intensified in the age of AI. And Flock Safety, a company that has seen both an influx of investment and intense public backlash, finds itself right in the center of that debate. That’s why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re
A recent exam of hundreds of mobile apps marketed to U.S. military personnel found that more than one in eight contained software created by companies in China, Russia or other foreign nations, raising new concerns that adversary governments could collect data that reveals where service members live, work and deploy. According to researchers at Purdue
The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in global telecommunications infrastructure to locate US military personnel in the run-up to the Iran war, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to the Financial Times. The Iranian government leveraged Signaling System 7, or SS7, a set of protocols for 2G and 3G networks
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras located across the United States. A senior LAPD official told media outlets, first reported by ABC7 and the Los Angeles Times, that the police department
just after noon On a Saturday last month, a Skydio X10 quadcopter hovered about 200 feet above a San Francisco apartment complex, watching police pursue a man hiding behind a parked car. The target of this chase lay flat on the pavement, apparently unaware that he was still in sight of the flying eye above
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