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The head of Flock Safety, a prominent provider of license plate recognition (LPR) technology to law enforcement, has admitted the company was too slow to intervene after discovering police officers were misusing its surveillance systems. This admission follows instances where US police officers exploited Flock Safety’s LPR cameras to track romantic partners for personal reasons,

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