had an abortion, search for female
Ran nationwide across 6,809 camera networks — 83,345 cameras — including states where abortion is legal.
Who is watching you drive?
What's on the pole
There is a camera
on that pole.
It photographs every car that passes — the plate, the make, the colour, the dents, the bumper stickers — and files it by time and place. It does not need a crime, a suspect or a reason to start.
105,934 That is not an estimate. It is how many volunteers have physically found and pinned on a public map — the floor, not the total. Flock says the real number is higher.
Source: OpenStreetMap taginfo Aug 19, 2026
Where it goes
It does not
stop at
your town.
The footage does not stay with your police department. It lands with a private company — and from there it is searchable by agencies you have never heard of, in states you have never driven through.
- 75% of Flock’s police customers have joined the national lookup tool. Sharing your town’s footage is the price of searching everyone else’s.
- 13 states have written plate reader records out of their public records laws. Flock’s own guide for police lists them, and advises redacting the search reasons.
Sources: Letter from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden to Flock Group, Inc. Oct 16, 2025
Who can look
Anyone with
a login.
Every search leaves a line in an audit log. Researchers pulled 12 million of those lines through public records requests. These are real entries — the reason field is what the officer actually typed.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation November 2025
Search log — reason field
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immigration violation
24 searches on a borrowed account, for a purpose Illinois law prohibits. The officer kept his job.
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no kings
One of hundreds of logged searches tied to protests.
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KINGS DAY PROTEST
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Portland Riots
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DxE Protest Suspect Vehicle
Nine searches of the national network tied to an animal-rights group’s actions.
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welfare
The officer was checking whether his girlfriend had gone to a clinic. He was sentenced to six months in jail.
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roma traveler
Hundreds of searches on ethnicity alone, many with no crime named. Fairfax County, Virginia ran more than 150.
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g*psy ruse
A further 400 searches used terms targeting Irish Traveller communities.
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ICE WARRANT
One of more than 4,000 lookups run for federal agencies or with an immigration focus. ICE has no Flock contract; it asks local police instead.
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investigation
No case number. Flock does not require one, and does not stop an officer typing a single generic word.
What they can add
A plate is a key.
On its own it gives three dull facts. Flock’s own marketing says what the second product is
for: A plate hit becomes a suspect list.
Read at 14:22, third Street
Public record · not removable
- The plate
- Make, model, colour
- Where and when it passed a camera
Commercial data · for sale
- Financially Challenged
- Political Affiliation
- Smoker in Household
- Religion (by Surname at the Household Level)
- Estimated Income
- Presence of Elderly Parent
- Country of Origin
- Credit Worthiness
- Activism & Social Issues
- Birth Dates of Each Child in Household
- Diabetes
- Assimilation Code
- Veteran in Household
- Underbanked Indicator
- Leans Left
- Foreign Language Household (e.g., Russian, Hindi, Tagalog, Cantonese)
- Social Security Number
- Family Ties
What you can remove
Privacy Bee
Cut the supply.
Nobody can un-photograph your car. But everything bolted onto that photograph — your salary, your health, your family, your politics — is commercial data, and the companies holding it have to delete it when you tell them to. So we tell them, by name, and keep telling them.
Read at 14:22, third Street
Public record · not removable
- The plate
- Make, model, colour
- Where and when it passed a camera
Commercial data · removed
- Financially Challenged
- Political Affiliation
- Smoker in Household
- Religion (by Surname at the Household Level)
- Estimated Income
- Presence of Elderly Parent
- Country of Origin
- Credit Worthiness
- Activism & Social Issues
- Birth Dates of Each Child in Household
- Diabetes
- Assimilation Code
- Veteran in Household
- Underbanked Indicator
- Leans Left
- Foreign Language Household (e.g., Russian, Hindi, Tagalog, Cantonese)
- Social Security Number
- Family Ties
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they can buy
about you.
A free scan shows you exactly which data brokers are holding your name, address, phone, relatives and more right now — and what each one is publishing. No account, no card.
- No credit card needed
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- We will never sell your data. Ever.
We file and re-file removals across 1,119 data brokers and 185,264 other sites that publish personal information.
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Removal from facial recognition databases
Your face is a biometric plate. It comes out of the same brokers, on the same schedule.
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Search engine results monitoring
What a search for your name returns, watched, and pushed back down when it resurfaces.
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Dark web and hacker forum monitoring
Breach corpora and paste sites, checked for your records continuously.
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Tiered escalation, up to the law
When a broker ignores a request, we escalate — invoking applicable privacy legislation to legally compel removal.
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Proof for every removal
Every removal comes with a screenshot. Re-exposures are detected and filed again automatically.
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Real people, in the United States
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