POGO -- Flock Safety cameras, etc.

Flock Safety cameras are showing up on street corners and at traffic signals around the country. You may have one in your own neighborhood. The technology company has made a business out of tracking how everyday Americans move — where you drive, how often, even what’s on your bumper — and selling that data to police departments.   That’s unsettling enough on its own, Friend. But here’s what should really worry you: Flock is just one player in a much bigger market.   Agencies like ICE, the FBI, and the Pentagon have been buying your sensitive personal data from private data brokers. No warrants. No court orders. No oversight. The government has been openly violating the Fourth Amendment.   You shouldn’t have to wonder who’s watching you drive to work.

For over 40 years, POGO has forced the federal government to answer for exactly this kind of abuse of power. And right now, we have a real opening. For the first time, surveillance hawks have failed to jam through a blank check for surveillance. Members of Congress demanding closure of the data broker loophole and the public demanding Flock cameras come down are pressure points — we need to act now.   We’re pushing Congress to prove its commitment to defending the privacy rights enshrined in the Constitution by closing the data broker loophole and protecting the people from warrantless mass surveillance.   Here’s the plan: We’re building a public pressure campaign on the dangerous expansion of mass warrantless surveillance. We’re working with congressional allies to move legislation that would close the loophole. We’re keeping the spotlight on agencies still buying their way around the Constitution. You can help make this happen.

Thank you for paying attention and holding our government accountable.   — POGO

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