It’s Not Just Flock. Police Can’t Be Trusted With Our Data.

It’s Not Just Flock. Police Can’t Be Trusted With Our Data. An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers. By Brian Dolinar , Truthout Published September 3, 2026 Illinois State Police stand guard while monitoring protesters gathering near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on October 4, 2025.OCTAVIO JONES / AFP via Getty Images

Illinois State Police stand guard while monitoring protesters gathering near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on October 4, 2025. OCTAVIO JONES / AFP via Getty Images

News | Prisons & Policing It’s Not Just Flock. Police Can’t Be Trusted With Our Data. An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers. By Brian Dolinar , Truthout Published September 3, 2026 Illinois State Police stand guard while monitoring protesters gathering near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on October 4, 2025.OCTAVIO JONES / AFP via Getty Images Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. A growing movement has been campaigning against surveillance cameras from companies like Flock Safety, which allow local police to gather mass surveillance data, often citing the possibility of misuse of that data. But for years police have steadily been building a digital infrastructure with personal information on people with criminal backgrounds in the name of public safety — and often without proper digital security