What is Flock?

Flock Safety is an Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) vendor. They have nearly 100,000 ALPR cameras across America. They get cities to rapidly adopt their products through shady "emergency" ordinances. Why? Because their product is invasive, faulty, and prone to abuse.

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Why you should care

Flock adopts a reckless business model that prioritizes profits over security.

Flock Safety surveillance camera on a solar-panel pole.

Invasive Technology

Flock's cameras save data on every car that passes them, not just ones related to investigations. This data is accessible on-demand across a nationwide network of law enforcement agencies. While local police can choose which departments to share with, what those departments do with your data is anybody's guess. So far, Flock's data has allowed bad police officers to stalk their exes, and track women seeking abortions.

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ICE loves Flock

Another proven use rogue police have for your data is sharing it with ICE. Despite having no contract with Flock, ICE has accessed its data thousands of times through sympathetic police departments. Even if your local police department says they don't cooperate with ICE, if they share with any departments that do, ICE can access their data. In Illinois, Flock themselves gave CBP access to state data without informing local authorities.

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Hackable Cameras

In 2025, Cybersecurity researcher Jon Gaines published a paper identifying over 50 security vulnerabilities in a selection of Flock's products. One flaw allows unauthorized access and control of Flock's most popular camera over Wi-Fi, simply by pressing a button on the unit in sequence. Flock has not responded meaningfully to this research.

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# Cameras

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$# Cost

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Don't let mass surveillance get to you

One of the goals of mass surveillance is to bully people into giving up their freedom and joy prematurely. The knowledge that we are constantly observed and tracked can affect our behavior for the worse. Don't let it. Get out and be with friends. Spread the word, and have fun doing it. By living free despite the circumstances, you actualize a small part of that better world we all hope for.