Executive Summary

St. Lucie County, Florida, discovered a dozen Flock surveillance cameras on county property whose owners could not be identified and that had not been authorized by county officials. The incident echoes a decade‑old case in Washington, DC, where StingRay cell‑phone surveillance devices were operated by unknown parties, raising concerns about unapproved surveillance equipment and potential privacy violations.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: Schneier on Security - Published Date: 2026-10-02T14:52:46+00:00 - Category: threat-intel

Original Description: St. Lucie County in Florida discovered (alt link) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can’t identify, and that the county government had not permitted. I am reminded of the decade-old story of StingRay cell phone surveillance devices in Washington, DC, whose operators were also unknown. My guess is that in the StingRay case, the devices were operated by foreign actors. This Flock case is more likely some local government entity that didn’t bother getting approval. Were I a fo...

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