{
  "id": 11802264,
  "title": "Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-04T00:21:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/03/0545254/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Surveillance company Flock has declined to add facial recognition to its devices, but third-party companies are offering to do so, according to 404 Media. VIDIZMO, a video analysis and database company, is advertising the ability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms with facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis. The company has started offering facial recognition technology to police within the last six months. In an email to Johnson City, Tennessee deputy police chief Michael Adams, a VIDIZMO salesperson stated that the company's product could integrate Flock and Axon body-worn camera data into one searchable platform. VIDIZMO's CEO, Nadeem Khan, told 404 Media that the company has not yet implemented facial recognition on Flock camera footage and hasn't built the specific tool to export data from Flock's system to its platform. However, Khan expressed interest in the integration and believes facial recognition is the future, calling for a balance of privacy, security, and personal freedoms. VIDIZMO's website states that their technology can identify individuals from seven races and can also perform demographic analysis for marketing purposes.",
  "summary": "404 Media reports: \"We will not add facial recognition to our devices,\" Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to \"close that gap.\" A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do…",
  "key_points": [
    "VIDIZMO offers facial recognition for Flock cameras.",
    "Company started selling facial recognition to police six months ago.",
    "CEO Nadeem Khan sees facial recognition as future, balancing privacy and security."
  ],
  "editors_take": "This development suggests that police may gain access to facial recognition capabilities for Flock camera footage through third-party companies, potentially altering the surveillance landscape and raising concerns about privacy and personal freedoms.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}