Stop Building a Surveillance State in America.
Friends, this authoritarian surveillance state is getting out of control, threatening our safety, privacy, and freedom. Now is the time to act and demand common-sense solutions.
We were already sounding the alarm about corporations building an AI-powered surveillance infrastructure around us. Now, Flock is advocating for turning vehicles into license-plate scanners, showing how easily this authoritarian surveillance state can grow.
A new investigation has found that Flock pitched a plan that could turn hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery vehicles into roaming license-plate surveillance machines.1
Think about that. A surveillance network that could follow us wherever we go.
And this danger isn’t theoretical.
Researchers have documented innocent motorists being pulled over, detained at gunpoint, and even jailed after automated license-plate reader errors.2
Then came another disturbing investigation revealing that officers have allegedly used these systems as personal surveillance tools, fueling frustration and a desire for accountability.
Investigators found at least 50 law-enforcement officers charged with or accused of unauthorized license-plate-reader use. In 26 cases, investigators or prosecutors said officers used the technology to spy on wives, girlfriends, ex-partners, their exes’ new partners, or women they wanted to meet. Flock’s system was involved in 46 of the cases reviewed.3
One Georgia police chief allegedly searched license plates belonging to his former girlfriend and her teenage daughter roughly 600 times. In Wisconsin, an officer allegedly used Flock to investigate whether his girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic.
Another investigation found cases where police departments apparently did not know their own officers had potentially misused these systems until journalists, victims, activists, or other outsiders raised the alarm.4
More than 100 cases of alleged misuse have also been documented, involving accusations ranging from stalking former partners to monitoring protesters and abortion-related travel. 5 And that’s just what we know about.
Flock says misconduct represents only a tiny share of its users and points to auditing tools designed to detect abuse. But when technology can quietly reveal where someone shops, worships, protests, visits a doctor, or spends the night, guardrails after the abuse has occurred are not enough.
America needs affordable healthcare, housing, education, lower costs, and real climate action, not more ways to monitor us. Our tax dollars should build stronger communities, not bigger surveillance networks.
People are fed up with corruption and cruelty. Families are demanding leaders address rising costs, healthcare, housing, education, good-paying jobs, and a planet getting hotter by the minute.
We do not need our public resources helping build an infrastructure capable of tracking ordinary Americans everywhere they go.
📢 TAKE ACTION» Tell your attorney general to investigate local law enforcement’s abuse of Flock surveillance cameras
📢 TAKE ACTION» Tell Congress to defund Flock’s expanding camera surveillance network.
📢 TAKE ACTION» Tell decision-makers: No AI data centers on federal lands.
Our public lands belong to the people. Our public dollars belong to the people. And our private lives belong to us.
Contact your local, state, and federal lawmakers now and demand that they actively oppose mass surveillance and protect our civil liberties. Tell them to reject policies, funding, and technologies that allow corporations or government agencies to track people without meaningful limits or accountability. Privacy, freedom of movement, and the right to live without constant monitoring are fundamental freedoms, and once they are weakened, they are difficult to reclaim. Speak up now and make it clear: our safety should never come at the cost of our freedom.
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https://www.404media.co/flock-pitched-a-plan-to-turn-uber-and-lyft-drivers-into-roaming-surveillance-vehicles/
https://ij.org/dozens-of-innocent-motorists-have-been-pulled-over-detained-at-gunpoint-or-jailed-due-to-ai-license-plate-camera-errors/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/19/we-found-cops-who-misused-flock-their-police-departments-didnt-know/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/police-abusing-flock-cameras
It’s also illegal as hell see the 4th amendment for starters
No, mass surveillance doesn't make people safer, it makes them easier to control and harm.