Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

September 29, 2026 • 11:31

While Flock Safety insists it does not perform facial recognition on data captured by its automatic license plate readers, third-party companies are marketing capabilities to integrate Flock data with facial recognition and other AI analysis. VIDIZMO, a video analysis firm, is advertising the ability to export Flock data into its platforms for facial recognition, behavior prediction, and demographic analysis. Although VIDIZMO CEO states they haven’t yet built the specific integration or run facial recognition on Flock data, he views it as an inevitable future. Privacy experts criticize the inherent inaccuracies and discriminatory potential of facial recognition, especially when classifying by race, gender, and age. They argue that Flock’s infrastructure itself enables more invasive technologies, making vendor-imposed limitations insufficient.

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