Flock Safety Wanted 350,000 Spies on Wheels: The Uber and Lyft Surveillance Plan Nobody Was Told ...

Our Take

Credit to Tech 4 Grown-Ups for digging up this pitch deck, because it says the quiet part out loud: Flock Safety isn't content with bolting cameras to poles anymore. The plan to partner with Nexar and quietly convert 350,000 rideshare and delivery dashcams into a rolling license plate collection fleet shows exactly where this industry wants to go — from fixed checkpoints to a surveillance blanket that follows you into your driveway, your church parking lot, your kid's school pickup line. And the drivers whose cars would have done the scanning? Never told. Never asked.

This is the pattern with Flock every single time. Pitch it to law enforcement as a narrow tool for solving crimes, then quietly scale the backend into something far larger before the public — or apparently even state AGs — get a real look at what's being built. A deal falling through in Georgia doesn't mean the idea dies; it means it gets pitched somewhere with less scrutiny next time. Mobile ALPR strapped to gig-economy vehicles is a genuinely new escalation, and the fact that it almost happened without drivers' knowledge should worry anyone who thought "I don't drive an Uber, so this doesn't affect me."

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