Documentation of Flock Safety failures and research conducted into Flock Safety. Click the title's to go directly to othe sources. This is being actively updated and is under maintenance, so please keep an eye out for any changes!
Other resources fighting back against Flock Safety. The following links are great resources to learn more about where flock cameras are.
This site shows an interactive map of where all known flock cameras are placed and the direction in which they are pointing. This is a great resource to find out an optimal path to avoid their cameras. This map shows the mass surveillance Flock has conqured omnipresence.
This site goes over the basic information surrounding flock safety and their Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras. This is a quick read with high-level information and sources cited.
This site is incredibly informative and has a searchable database to find out if you've been "flocked". They take publicly reported data from Flock and public information sources to aggregate what police officers are doing with Flock Cameras.
Documented incidents and investigative reporting on Flock Safety deployments and misuse.
Kansas police chief used Flock license plate cameras 164 times to track ex-girlfriend. Officer sentenced to 18 months probation.
Audit logs of Colorado's utilization of Flock cameras showed more than 1,400 searches were done on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), highlighting the extensive scope of data sharing between local surveillance systems and federal immigration authorities. [3a] [3b] [3c] [3d]
"U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore. and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., today called for a federal investigation into surveillance technology company Flock Safety, for failing to implement cybersecurity protections and needlessly exposing Americans' personal data to theft by hackers, foreign spies, and criminals."
Security research, vulnerability disclosures, and educational content about Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) technology and its implications.
Security Firm's findings on how they accessed source code, hardcoded secrets, demo information, algorithms, and other information.
YouTube Video from Benn Jordan showing the vulnerabilities in the Flock Safety Camera systems as well as the philosophical issues of mass surveillance. This is for educational purposes only, do not try this at home.
YouTube Video from Benn Jordan showing how Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPRs) work, the potential implications of the technology, and how to break the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. This is for educational purposes only, do not try this at home.
This repository hosts the public release of independent research into an anti-crime technology ecosystem, including a gunshot detection system, license plate readers, and compute modules. It documents 51 findings, 22 with assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) and an additional 8 pending assignment related but not limited to authentication, cryptography, and system design in an anti-crime technology ecosystem.
Flock Safety here claims to be solving 10% of all reported crime. This is misleading and was only for "Specific crime types and statistical comparisons before and after these technologies were implemented"
This study shows that Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) can be effective, however if you look at one of the studies they showed, it says "Case clearances for auto theft and robbery improved after the installation of the LPR network, particularly in places where LPRs were concentrated. However, these changes were not statistically significant in multivariate analyses, and patterns in the data suggest that other factors may have also contributed to higher clearances during the intervention period, particularly for auto theft cases"
This report shows that the Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) did NOT support its effectiveness in crime reduction. "Additionally, a review of the local landscape of ALPR outcomes does not provide automatic support for its effectiveness in crime reduction. In Bakersfield, CA, the use of ALPRs has been around since at least 2019. However, in 2021, the city had the highest rate of motor vehicle theft in the United States, according to the National Crime Information Center."