AJ Dellinger
Role at the time: Contributor to Gizmodo, writing an analysis of Flock's announcement
Response to this claim
Flock's August 2026 safeguards meaningfully address privacy and misuse concerns about its license-plate reader network.
“Flock’s new features may lessen abuses on the fringes, but there is still plenty of room for misuse.”
Why we used this label
The case asks whether Flock's August 2026 safeguard package (a seven-day default retention period, Evidence Mode, offense-based sharing limits, mandatory Audit Assistance, proactive lockouts and case codes) addresses privacy and misuse concerns about its plate-reader network. Dellinger grants that the new features may reduce abuse at the margins but concludes that they leave plenty of room for misuse and depend on police to enforce them. Condemns fits because he judges the package inadequate. Mixed or conditional is the closest competing label; it loses because his limited credit does not change that conclusion.