San Francisco Sued Over License Plate Cameras, Data Sharing (1)

The San Francisco Police Department unlawfully shared license plate data captured by the city’s nearly 500 Flock Safety cameras with state and federal agencies, a proposed class action alleges.

The automated license plate readers also “make it functionally impossible to drive anywhere in the City without having one’s movements tracked, photographed, and stored in an AI-assisted database” that allows officers to conduct warranteless surveillance, according to the complaint filed Sunday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The city “has taken steps to ensure law enforcement agencies outside of California are not able to access SFPD’s ...