Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.
Garrett Langley, the company’s chief executive, set out the package in a post on Flock’s own blog on 13 August.
It covers six areas. Privacy, accountability, data ownership, data security, data accuracy and transparency.
Most of the Flock Safety privacy changes become mandatory for law enforcement customers on 1 January, the Associated Press reported.
What Flock announced
The retention change is the headline item. The default holding period for number plate reads drops from 30 days to seven.
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