Flock hacking is easier than you think!

Our Take

Credit to AFA of Indiana for digging into the actual security posture of Flock Safety's camera network rather than just taking the company's marketing at face value. If a system built to vacuum up every driver's location data can be accessed with less effort than logging into someone's inbox, that's not a minor bug — it's a structural problem with putting this much surveillance infrastructure in the hands of a private vendor with uneven security practices.

We can't verify every technical claim in the video ourselves, and we'd encourage viewers to treat any specific hacking method as something to be confirmed independently rather than repeated as gospel. But the broader point stands regardless of the exact exploit: these networks store months of vehicle movement data tied to real people, and that data becomes a target the moment it exists. Weak access controls turn a 'public safety tool' into a ready-made stalking, harassment, or identity-theft resource for anyone with modest skills.

This is exactly why we track deployments and push back on unchecked expansion — a system this porous shouldn't be quietly blanketing neighborhoods with cameras nobody voted on. Check our camera map to see what's near you, and hit take action if you want to push your local officials to answer for it.