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
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Read original at TechCrunch →People aren’t exactly thrilled about Flock’s growing surveillance network. Communities are canceling contracts, protesters are taking down cameras in increasingly creative ways, and activists have built a crowdsourced…
Read original at Mashable →This article was published on August 14, 2026 Flock Safety has cut its default data retention from 30 days to seven and will make search audits compulsory. The Flock Safety privacy changes follow nearly 50 documented…
Read original at The Next Web →CEO announces steps after reports that system is used to target immigrants or people seeking out-of-state abortions For nearly a decade, the company Flock Safety has gradually built out a network of cameras across the…
Read original at The Guardian →Controversial surveillance technology company Flock Safety has unveiled sweeping new privacy "guardrails," seemingly intended to quell growing unrest over its devices' presence across the country. Days prior, CEO…
Read original at Mashable →Agents reportedly used electronic databases to spy on family members and even provide intelligence to drug traffickers. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have reportedly misused electronic databases to spy…
Read original at Engadget →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…
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View source →People aren’t exactly thrilled about Flock’s growing surveillance network. Communities are canceling contracts, protesters are taking down cameras in increasingly creative ways, and activists have built a crowdsourced map showing where the…
View source →This article was published on August 14, 2026 Flock Safety has cut its default data retention from 30 days to seven and will make search audits compulsory. The Flock Safety privacy changes follow nearly 50 documented cases of police…
View source →CEO announces steps after reports that system is used to target immigrants or people seeking out-of-state abortions For nearly a decade, the company Flock Safety has gradually built out a network of cameras across the US that allows law…
View source →Controversial surveillance technology company Flock Safety has unveiled sweeping new privacy "guardrails," seemingly intended to quell growing unrest over its devices' presence across the country. Days prior, CEO Garrett Langley went on a…
View source →Agents reportedly used electronic databases to spy on family members and even provide intelligence to drug traffickers. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have reportedly misused electronic databases to spy on family members,…
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