How One Patent Envisions a Nation Under Surveillance

The line between public safety and permanent record has never been thinner.

Christina Maas

In August 2022, a company named Flock Group Inc., already running a nationwide web of license-plate cameras, secured a US patent that quietly sketches out the next logical step: total video integration.

It is called US 11,416,545 B1, a bureaucratic title for what amounts to a manual on building a surveillance organism.

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