So flock safety, flock surveillance, I prefer to call them, they're one of a number of vendors
making what they like to call ALPRs or automated license plate readers, which really is a bit
of a misnomer.
They do a whole lot more than just read license plates.
In the case of flock, they're using AI in a centralized backend to cloud-based backend
to tag things like make model color, roof racks, bumper stickers, window tints, bike
racks, all that kind of stuff.
And they build, they recently renamed it from a vehicle fingerprint to a vehicle
signature, which I think just sounds a little better PR wise.
I think somebody told them to do that.
But they're building this database and every time they see a vehicle, regardless
of whether you're on any kind of a watch list or the car is stolen or anything
like that, they're putting you in a database that then becomes searchable
for by default 30 days, but it can be longer without a warrant.
So we've seen a lot of abuse already.