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Flock Pitched Plan to Turn 350K Uber/Lyft Drivers Into Surveillance Vehicles

A leaked presentation reveals the surveillance company planned to use rideshare dashcams to collect license plate data across a mobile network.

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Summary, timeline and people extracted by Claude from 4 items across 3 sources · 8h ago. Quotes are verbatim.

Flock, an automatic license plate reader company, planned a partnership with dashcam maker Nexar to deploy license plate scanning technology on approximately 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery service vehicles, according to a presentation obtained by 404 Media. Flock told the outlet the partnership was never executed, but the document shows the company actively pitched the plan to potential customers around the time of its initial public disclosure in August 2025.

  • Flock planned to deploy license plate scanning on 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery vehicles through a partnership with dashcam maker Nexar.
  • A presentation obtained via public records shows Flock actively pitched the partnership to potential customers, despite claiming it was never executed.
  • It remains unclear whether Uber, Lyft, or their drivers would have been aware their vehicles were collecting license plate data.

How it unfolded

  1. Report Presentation details disclosed

    404 Media publishes details from a Flock presentation showing plans to use approximately 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers' dashcams to scan license plates, obtained through public records request by a Georgia resident.

  2. Reaction Flock denies execution

    Flock tells 404 Media the partnership with Nexar was never actually executed, despite the presentation showing it was actively pitched to potential customers.

  3. 53 weeks quiet
  4. Event Flock-Nexar partnership initially reported

    404 Media first revealed Flock's plan to partner with dashcam company Nexar to use rideshare drivers for license plate data collection.

What people are saying verbatim

“Hundreds of Commercial Business and HOA [home owners associations] in GA [Georgia] are part of the network. Plus Nexar partnership which includes 350k Uber/Lyft and other delivery service devices.”

Flock, Surveillance company · 404 Media (from presentation) · Aug 6

“Flock told 404 Media in an email it never executed the partnership with Nexar.”

Flock, Surveillance company · 404 Media · Aug 6

“It is not clear whether Uber or Lyft, or drivers working for those apps, would have been aware of the data collection.”

404 Media, Journalist · 404 Media · Aug 6