It's Never Been Cooler to Take Down a Flock Camera

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. In such divided times, any issue on which the public can reach a relative accord is an achievement worth celebrating. Pretty much everyone (95%) agrees we’re in an affordability crisis. The share of Americans who believe ICE has “gone too far” has climbed to 65%. And then there’s the rapid shift in public opinion to abject hatred of AI and data centers. Who among us has not felt a swell of patriotic pride watching communities around the nation set aside their differences to ban data centers from their towns and punish the unscrupulous local politicians who attempted to surreptitiously approve their construction? Another such area of consensus seems to be percolating—one that’s in direct defiance of the tech oligarchs and politicians attempting to shape our world into a panopticon hellscape. Backlash against the $7.5 billion startup Flock Safety—the maker of AI-powered, license plate-scanning, pole-mounted surveillance cameras—has gone from brewing to boiling over in recent weeks, much to the chagrin of the police