Billionaire Axon chief Rick Smith says he’s “embarrassed” to have recommended Flock’s car surveillance tools to cops.
wo of the biggest police surveillance companies in the U.S. are ending a long-standing partnership, in what’s become a bitter, public spat with each claiming the other is at fault.
He accused Flock of charging excessive fees for integrating with Axon’s technologies, in particular Fusus, software that combines surveillance feeds into one app and uses AI to alert cops if criminal activity is spotted. Smith claimed that Flock had recently “escalated” tensions between the two companies by refusing to allow any Flock feeds to go through to Fusus’ software, “in an effort to strong-arm customers to switch to its platform.
“In fact, a contractual agreement with Axon was recently reciprocated in August of last year confirming that Axon and mutual customers would have free access to Flock’s APIs, until Axon ended that contract a couple of weeks ago,” Thomas added. It’s a significant altercation, given the two companies’ recent history. Axon was an early investor in Flock, which has raised $680 million to date from VCs including Andreessen Horowitz and Bedrock. Flock has seen enormous success, scoring contracts in as many as 5,000 cities across America, from San Diego to Atlanta., which led to cameras being rolled out in contravention of various states’ Department of Transportation rules on acquiring the right safety permits.
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