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EFF: Anti-Surveillance Mapmaker Refuses Flock’s Cease and Desist

Website
www.eff.org
Stance
Opposes
Run by
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Scope
National

EFF represented DeFlock creator Will Freeman after Flock Safety sent a trademark cease-and-desist over the crowdsourced camera map, and rejected the demand as meritless – critical, nominative use of a company name is protected First Amendment activity. The precedent most directly relevant to any site, including this one, that names Flock to report on it.