Hawley: "If you haven't heard of Flock … Flock's probably heard of you"

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) raised concerns about a growing surveillance state in America during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Wednesday on Flock Safety's sprawling network of AI-powered license plate cameras. "If you haven't heard of Flock, all I have to say is, Flock's probably heard of you," he said at the start of the hearing he was chairing. The Missouri Republican noted that Flock maintains a network of 120,000 cameras in 49 states that generate some 20 billion images per month. "The truth is, you have probably been scanned and surveilled and tagged and logged multiple times this week alone," he said. Sen. Hawley said that Flock and other companies that are building surveillance networks pose a threat to Americans' constitutional rights to personal privacy and the presumption of innocence. "The Constitution of the United States is just as valuable and valid and applicable today as it was almost 250 years ago when it was first penned," he said. "We've got to find a