As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

Wisconsin cities are leaving Flock, an automated license plate camera network, over privacy and trust concerns. According to Ars Technica, the departures create a compounding problem: with each city that leaves, the network becomes less useful for those that remain. Dane County, which includes Madison, had twenty-four Flock cameras under contract. But after complaints from residents and privacy experts, the county board voted in April to cut eighty thousand dollars in funding and terminate the program.

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