350,000 Cars Almost Became Mobile License Plate Readers
The short version: The Intel Desk reports Flock Safety pitched turning 350,000 Nexar-equipped Uber, Lyft, and delivery vehicles into a roaming license-plate-reading fleet.
Our Take
Credit to The Intel Desk for digging into this one, because it shows exactly where Flock's ambitions are headed: not just bolting cameras to street poles, but recruiting the cars already driving every block of your city. If a deal with Nexar had gone through, your Uber driver or DoorDash courier could have doubled as a rolling surveillance node, feeding plate scans into Flock's network without most riders or drivers ever knowing it was happening.
This is the quiet escalation we keep warning about. Fixed ALPRs are bad enough — a static camera tracks your movements past a single point. A fleet of 350,000 mobile units turns an entire metro area into a surveillance grid with no fixed boundaries, no public hearing, and no sign posted to tell you it's there. The pitch may have stalled, but the appetite for this kind of blanket coverage isn't going away, and companies don't usually stop pitching just because one deal falls through.
Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and head to take-action if you want to push back before mobile ALPR fleets become the next normal.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Intel Desk, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.