Flock Cameras Are Disappearing in Plain Sight
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Communities trying to remove Flock surveillance cameras and finding them hard to kill is a reminder that sensor networks, once deployed, become sticky infrastructure. If your product depends on ambient sensing—ALPR, video, audio—assume future political and regulatory pushback and design for graceful deactivation and data minimization now.
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