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The controversial law enforcement vendor Flock Safety wanted to make every Uber, Lyft, and delivery car a moving license-plate reader.
A presentation the company wrote for the Georgia Attorney General's office, and later shared with 404 Media, lays out a plan to use dashcams from Nexar—a company whose cameras already sit in hundreds of thousands of vehicles—to scan the plates of cars those drivers passed.
Flock said it never actually launched the Nexar deal. The document still shows how far the company wanted to stretch its reach.
Flock's normal product is a fixed camera on a pole that logs the plate, color, make, and model of every car that drives past, building a searchable map of where vehicles go. They've become incredibly divisive in communities where they've gone up, with people taking to knocking them down or covering them up in protest.
The Nexar idea would have untethered these cameras from the pole. Instead of one camera watching one intersection, 350,000 cars would have carried the camera with them, filling gaps between fixed sites and tracking plates across whole regions in real time.
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A presentation the company wrote for the Georgia Attorney General's office, and later shared with 404 Media, lays out a plan to use dashcams from Nexar—a company whose cameras already sit in hundreds of thousands of vehicles—to scan the plates of cars those drivers passed.
Flock said it never actually launched the Nexar deal. The document still shows how far the company wanted to stretch its reach.
Flock's normal product is a fixed camera on a pole that logs the plate, color, make, and model of every car that drives past, building a searchable map of where vehicles go. They've become incredibly divisive in communities where they've gone up, with people taking to knocking them down or covering them up in protest.
The Nexar idea would have untethered these cameras from the pole. Instead of one camera watching one intersection, 350,000 cars would have carried the camera with them, filling gaps between fixed sites and tracking plates across whole regions in real time.
Flock Wanted to Turn 350,000 Uber Drivers Into a Nationwide Plate-Scanning Fleet
A leaked Flock presentation shows the surveillance firm pitching a plan to pull license-plate data from rideshare and delivery drivers.
