1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Per LA Squawkbox/The LA Reporter today: “During their verbal presentation to the Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday, LAPD officials said that after Flock’s contract expired a few days ago, they were cut off from accessing the cloud storage for the data being collected by Flock’s license-plat-reading cameras. But, those cameras should still be on, they assured. They framed this as a good thing, saying that once they do execute a new agreement with Flock, the footage and license plate data being collected during the period when the contract had lapsed, will be sitting there in the cloud, ready for them to use to go after any bad guys that are out there. “LAPD officials also told commissioners that they sent a draft agreement to Flock in early May, but have been left on read by Flock, since then. The new draft contract, they said, contained a few terms aimed at addressing data security, something that the inspector general (watchdog of the LAPD) said was lacking in the LAPD’s contracts with Flock and other camera surveillance companies.” So is there zero public oversight of these cameras now? LAPD should not even be entertaining the prospect of another contract with Flock, and they’re just giving them the keys for free? Stop this invasion of privacy.