At Flock Safety, the future of policing doesn't knock. It doesn’t call first. It doesn’t need a warrant. It just stares blankly at your bumper from the side of the road, takes notes, cross-references your license plate with half the dark web, and, if Nova has its way, draws a family tree, complete with your ex, your cousin who sold weed in 2012, and maybe even that guy you played Fortnite with in college.
According to internal documents obtained by 404, Flock’s newest brainchild is a digital bloodhound named Nova. Its job? To leapfrog from license plate to person, and then; because no Orwellian fever dream is complete without guilt by association; it sniffs out everyone in your periphery. Marriage, gang affiliation, a shared Netflix account? All fair game. Nova doesn’t discriminate.
“You're going to be able to access data and jump from LPR to person and understand what that context is, link to other people that are related to that person [...] marriage or through gang affiliation, et cetera,” bragged one Flock employee in a company meeting, caught on audio. The tone wasn’t cautious. It was giddy like someone just figured out how to turn Facebook stalking into federal policy.
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