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American license plate recognition company
says it has no contract with ICE and does not proactively share customer data with federal agencies without explicit local-customer permission , while has publicly denied any direct partnership with I...
A handful of Washington jurisdictions paused, hooded, or disabled Flock Safety automated license-plate readers this autumn amid public alarm about immigration-enforcement access and a recent court rul...
There is no public, definitive evidence that is now automatically funneling all doorbell data to the ; reporting shows expanded technical pathways and partnerships that make it easier for federal agen...
to revelations that ) or other federal actors accessed license‑plate data have ranged from temporary suspensions and formal contract terminations to audits and council reviews; notable locales that pu...
Multiple investigative reports and public records document instances where U.S. immigration authorities accessed license-plate data that flowed through systems not by a direct Flock– contract but by u...
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) combines case management, analytical and forensic services, and partnerships with law enforcement, technology firms, and international or...
does use automated license‑plate and camera systems at many stores and parking lots, a fact disclosed in reporting and cited in investor inquiries . deny any direct contracts or partnerships with or ,...
Since 2023, a patchwork of state actions—ranging from new statutes to administrative rules and contract terminations—has produced targeted limits on automated license‑plate readers (ALPRs) and, in som...
Home Depot does not have a publicly acknowledged direct contract to supply customer data to ICE, but its use of Flock Safety camera networks and the company’s limited public responses create a realist...
Available reporting shows remain widespread in —an estimated network covering dozens of cities—yet many municipalities have paused or disabled systems after revelations about federal access; definitiv...
There is that have installed cameras explicitly for immigration enforcement; major local reporting on ICE raids at Home Depot stores does not document company-installed cameras used for immigration po...
, , held that images captured by constitute under , rejecting the claim that vendor storage places them outside the law . The ruling forces municipalities to confront retention, disclosure and access ...
’s Community Requests lets verified public safety agencies post time- and location-bound asks in the Neighbors app so nearby Ring owners can voluntarily review and submit recorded clips that might hel...
NCMEC operates the CyberTipline to collect reports of online child sexual exploitation and routes those reports to the appropriate law enforcement agencies or ICAC task forces; the CyberTipline proces...
’s “Community Requests” feature, now integrated with and , lets local public‑safety agencies push time‑and‑place‑limited requests to Ring users and lets those users voluntarily share clips; Ring and p...
Public records reviewed by University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) and reporting by local outlets show that multiple Washington cities and at least one county law-enforcement agency h...
Flock Safety’s network of automated license-plate–reading (ALPR) and video cameras is now installed across thousands of U.S. communities and used by “5,000 law enforcement agencies and more than 6,000...
platform enforces sharing and oversight through per‑agency “network” controls, searchable reasons and case‑number fields, and that record every search, while the company says data encryption and segre...
A growing patchwork of local police departments have shared Safety license-plate reader (LPR) data with other law-enforcement agencies — sometimes via software settings and sometimes via contractual l...
do not widely advertise direct, standing “agreements with ” to hand over in‑store security footage, but evidence shows several chains have commercial relationships with whose networks and data have be...