Atlanta Suburb Renews Flock Surveillance Contract After Sales Team Accessed Children's Gymnastics Room Cameras for Demos
By
Jason Koebler
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Summary
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are outraged after discovering that Flock sales employees accessed sensitive surveillance cameras—including in a children's gymnastics room, playground, school, Jewish community center, and pool—to demonstrate the company's technology to police departments nationwide. Despite the breach and public backlash, the city renewed its contract with Flock anyway. Flock confirmed the access occurred as part of sales demos but disputed how activists characterized the incident.
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The cameras accessed have included surveillance tech in a children's gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool.
Flock has taken issue with the way that residents and activists have characterized the access but confirmed that the camera access did happen as part of its sales demonstrations.
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