Flock Safety Nova uses dark web data for surveillance

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Flock Safety has a program called Nova, which combines their surveillance technology into a database of personal information from the internet. In a leak reported by 404 Media, a Flock Safety employee claims that the company is using information from data breaches to provide this information. When questioned on this, Flock Safety's spokeperson claims that Flock "thought about using dark web data but we changed our mind," further claiming that the information leak from the employee to 404 Media was not based off "finalized" information.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20250514140531/https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-is-building-a-massive-people-lookup-tool-leak-shows/

https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/correcting-the-record-flock-nova-will-not-supply-dark-web-data

https://www.govtech.com/biz/flock-safety-pushes-back-on-data-breach-product-criticism

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