Overview
- Saturday's Flock presentation, obtained by 404 Media and reported by multiple outlets, described a plan to equip roughly 350,000 Uber, Lyft and delivery dashcams with automatic license‑plate readers in Georgia.
- Flock told reporters the Nexar partnership described in the document was never implemented, but the slide deck exposed the company's ambition to turn drivers into a mobile extension of its ALPR network.
- Flock already operates a large fixed ALPR network with more than 100,000 installed cameras that collect time‑stamped still images of vehicles and store plate and vehicle metadata in the cloud for searchable queries.
- Reporting and audits have documented accuracy problems, alleged erasure of usage logs and at least 50 officers accused of misusing access to stalk partners or track people without warrants, while a previous Nexar footage breach raised security alarms.
- Public resistance has grown fast with organized groups mapping and vandalizing units, more than 70 municipalities pausing or ending contracts, and lawmakers, prosecutors and city officials moving to tighten contracts and consider new limits on use.