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• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI Dec 9, 2025
  This article was produced with support from WIRED. Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI (Wired) Dec 9, 2025
  Flock the automatic license plate reader and AIpowered camera company uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms with training material telling workers how to review and... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - A Vast Camera System Now Feeds Information to Police on Drivers Across the US Dec 9, 2025
  The United States public has been treated to round after round of revelations disclosing that our actions — public and private, digital and physical, criminalized and legal — are tracked... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location Dec 9, 2025
  Police in Texas, Florida, and thousands of departments nationwide can track Massachusetts drivers in real-time — without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. Documents obtained by... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Dec 9, 2025
  The company’s default agreement with police departments grants the company license to share people’s license plate data Man looking in car rear-view mirror, warily Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - Flock Safety replies to concerns regarding privacy rights Dec 9, 2025
  Flock Safety was founded on dual principles: law enforcement should use cutting edge technologies to prevent and solve crime; and these technologies should safeguard civil liberties. All of our products have the... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - The Attention Economy Dec 1, 2025
  Overview The seemingly free social media products we use every day help us to stay connected learn new things and find information But they also analyze our actions and the data... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - How the Attention Economy Hacks Our Attention Dec 1, 2025
  Reclaiming control of your attention is a step towards freedom Posted October 16 2022 Reviewed by Jessica Schrader THE BASICS Understanding Attention Take our ADHD Test Find a therapist to help with ADHD Key... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - Persuasive Design Techniques in the Attention Economy Dec 1, 2025
  Persuasive Design Techniques in the Attention Economy User Awareness Theory and Ethics by Devangi Vivrekar A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Stanford University June 6... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - The Struggle for Human Attention Dec 1, 2025
  Abstract Human attention has become an object of study that defines both the design of interfaces and the production of emotions in a digital economy ecosystem. Guided by the control of... Read more