One California town found Flock's license plate cameras were wrong 71% of the time
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In brief: The controversy surrounding Flock cameras primarily centers on privacy and fears of a surveillance state. However, the cloud-based license-plate-reading system's accuracy and effectiveness have also drawn scrutiny. In one particularly egregious case, an internal review uncovered more than 1,000 false positives over two years.
Police in Roseville, California, found that, out of 1,427 incidents in which the town's AI-powered license-plate cameras flagged a vehicle as stolen or used in a felony, the cameras misread the plate in 71% of cases.
Flock, the startup that supplies the cameras to Roseville and approximately 6,000 other communities across the US, attributed the errors to Roseville's atypical camera setup, but as Business Insider reports, the results could expose flaws in an already controversial technology.
Flock's cameras, typically placed on traffic light poles and roadsides,...
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