Flock pitched turning 350,000 Uber and Lyft drivers into a roaming surveillance network

This article was published on August 9, 2026 A leaked presentation to Georgia's attorney general showed Flock planned to tap Nexar dashcams in Uber, Lyft, and delivery vehicles. Passengers and drivers may not have known their vehicles were collecting data for police. Flock Safety pitched using 350,000 rideshare dashcams as mobile license plate scanners via a partnership with Nexar. Leaked document from Georgia AG public records request. Flock says the deal was never executed. Passengers would not have been told. Flock Safety pitched a plan to equip hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers with dashcams that would scan license plates along their routes, effectively turning the rideshare fleet into a mobile extension of its surveillance network. A company presentation obtained by 404 Media through a Georgia public records request describes a proposed partnership with Nexar, a dashcam maker already popular with rideshare drivers. The document was presented to Georgia’s attorney general’s office. Flock told 404 Media the deal was never executed. The scale was ambitious: roughly 350,000 rideshare and delivery vehicles would have joined Flock’s existing network of fixed