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No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance
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Photos of purported cease and desist letters from the company have gone viral, but Flock says it didn’t send them.
Key facts
- WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED,” the group, The Saturday Salon, wrote in the Instagram post, which has more than 3,000 likes
- In a DM from The Saturday Salon’s Instagram account, Schuyler Lifschultz tells The Verge that it “found this letter taped to their front door
- On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety
- Lifschultz tells The Verge that The Saturday Salon would “love to have somebody from Flock come in and tell their views and give a lecture
Summary
On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. “WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED,” the group, The Saturday Salon, wrote in the Instagram post, which has more than 3,000 likes. But Flock denies that it sent the letter, with chief strategy officer Rahul Sidhu citing it as an example of a mass disinformation campaign against Flock. Verge, Flock’s chief legal officer, Dan Haley, says that Flock is aware of “at least two forged” letters and that “these letters did not come from me or from anyone at Flock.” Here is Haley’s full statement:.