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# Flock's Roadside Cameras Store Vast Tracking Data, Hacker Dump Shows
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/flocks-roadside-cameras-store-vast-tracking-data-hacker-dump-shows/
- Published: 2026-09-17T16:10:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T16:10:24.000Z
- Description: Flock Safety’s license plate readers, deployed across thousands of US neighborhoods as a “public safety” tool, accumulate months of movement records on every vehicle that passes, creating a de facto surveillance database accessible to local police without traditional warrant requirements.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-consumer, privacy, surveillance, data security

Source: [Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/hackers-reveal-how-flock-cameras-really-track-cars-and-people/?ref=adjacent.media)

Flock Safety's license plate readers, deployed across thousands of US neighborhoods as a "public safety" tool, accumulate months of movement records on every vehicle that passes, creating a de facto surveillance database accessible to local police without traditional warrant requirements. The physical vulnerability of these devices and the unencrypted data they contain expose a gap between consumer assumptions about surveillance (limited, purposeful) and the reality: continuous, indiscriminate tracking infrastructure that treats movement as a permanent record. Demand for surveillance transparency laws is likely to increase, and consumer skepticism toward "smart city" hardware marketed as crime-fighting will likely harden as the monitoring capabilities become clearer.