The license plate reading company is said to build a police control tool using penetrated data

A controversial company has developed the readers of the license board a new monitoring tool that combines different data collections and connecting them to driver’s driver information. The tool, which is marketed to police officers, is used even the information that is executed from violations of data and hacked data, which is a new report.

404 media Reports that A flock-where the technology of tracking gaseous cars was previously It was the subject of the lawsuit– In the final stages of developing a tool called “Nova”. on Its website on the InternetFlock says that Nova can connect “people, vehicles and sites” and it helps to “solve the crime and prevent the next crime.” Flock is also considered to collect NOVA “data together under a simple and predictable platform. According to 404, Nova Law enforcement allows information to quickly collect a driver from a variety of different sources, including public records, “commercially available data” of data brokers, and law enforcement databases. It also uses information from data violations.

The audio reveals from a leaked company meeting that such violations include the hacker parking meter application, Parkmobile, 404 writing. Access to data from violations such as these licensing boards numbers allows them to other data that have been shared with the application, including contact information such as phone numbers and email addresses, and sometimes by mail.

Gizmodo connects to Flock for more information. In a joint statement with 404 Media, the company described NOVA as “the public safety data platform that helps researchers analyze and connect the data they can already access, and climb visions to detect expected customers and close cases faster.” She also stated that the program that works to run the tool is “completely customized” and that “customers choose the data they want in Nova.” In other words, Flock puts responsibility for its customers to use its performance responsibly.

Flock also means that all central data with its software collection was already available for policewomen on other means. “Although officers may have access to similar information through other means, its centers inside Nova add a decisive layer of transparency and accountability, so the democratically elected government bodies can guarantee that they are used according to the law,” the statement added.

Although Flock has expressed confidence in its new product, 404 reports show that the company’s employees are tense and contradict the Nova use of stolen data. Quoting the internal recession messages, 404 of the employees who apparently said the following: “I felt very terrifying to hear that we use the stolen data in our system. In addition to illegally achieving it, this seems that this may create a truly harmful incentives to leak more data and steal it,” they wrote. “What if the data is stolen from the herd? Should that then become the standard data in the system of anyone else?”

Flock License Reading Technology has sparked constant concern for privacy and civil freedom preachers, Who worries that Such tools can be used by low and authoritarian systems for mass control. However, Flock does not show any signs of slowdown in the constantly wider law enforcement technology portfolio. The company recently Declare Expansion in drone technology, with Aerodome’s acquisition, which he described as a “first respondent” demographic program that can be used in emergency situations.