No Warrant No Problem: The Surveillance State Has an App Now

What used to take subpoenas and shoe leather now takes a scroll and a login.

Solar-powered traffic monitoring camera mounted on a pole overlooking a busy city street filled with yellow taxis and other vehicles under fading daylight.

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.

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