Jason Hunyar
Role at the time: Dunwoody, Georgia resident and privacy researcher who originally documented Flock's camera access through open-records requests and has previously spoken to the city council against its Flock contract
Response to this claim
The sensitive searches run through the Flock City PD and related demo accounts, including for "Star of David" and "vehicle a pretty girl would drive," were internal tests of the company's search-moderation safeguards, not investigative searches conducted by a customer law enforcement agency.
“Flock's claims that they impose restrictions on what users can search for in their database provides the opposite assurance of what they seem to purport. In doing so, they admit that their dynamic surveillance network does in fact capture this sensitive information, and that the gate to that information is controlled solely by the policies of a for-profit corporation.”
Why we used this label
Relative to whether Flock Safety's use of fake police accounts to search live license-plate cameras for sensitive queries was appropriate, Hunyar directly rejects Flock's defense, arguing the company's own explanation proves the sensitive-search capability exists and is controlled only by the company's own discretion, which condemns the arrangement rather than accepting Flock's justification.