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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI

404 Media · Joseph Cox · December 1, 2025

Flock accidentally exposed training materials revealing it employs overseas gig workers from the Philippines via Upwork to review and classify U.S. surveillance footage for its machine learning algorithms, raising concerns about foreign access to sensitive domestic surveillance data.

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