All surveillance technology is bad.
“The surveillance company Flock told employees at an all-hands meeting Friday that its new people search product, Nova, will not include hacked data from the dark web. The announcement comes a little over a week after 404 Media broke the news about internal tension at the company about plans to use breached data, including from a 2021 Park Mobile data break.
Immediately following the all-hands meeting, Flock published details of its decision in a public blog post it says is designed to "correct the record on what Flock Nova actually does and does not do." The company said that following a "lengthy, intentional process" about what data sources it would use and how the product would work, it has decided not to supply customers with dark web data.”
#surveillance #flock #data #people #search #public #tool #darkweb #product #privacy #tech #news
https://www.404media.co/flock-decides-not-to-use-hacked-data-in-people-search-tool/
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