VIEWPOINT | Flock safety quietly moves its guardrails while South Dakotans lose
Guest column by Andrew Konechne, Brookings
When Brookings agreed to install Flock Safety surveillance cameras, the deal rested on clear promises. The city would own the data. Retention would be temporary — 30 days, then permanently deleted). Flock would not sell our information. The contract said so explicitly: “Flock does not own and shall not sell Customer Data.” Flock’s own marketing pages went further: “Your neighborhood owns 100 percent of the data” and “Flock Safety will never share, sell, or access your data.”
Under those terms, the decision made sense. I understood the support for it. Most of us did.
