Flock Safety's Unexecuted Plan to Turn Rideshare Vehicles into Mobile AI Surveillance Network
Flock Safety reportedly pitched a plan in August 2025 to Georgia's Attorney General to convert 350,000 Uber and Lyft dashcams into a mobile automated license plate reading network through a partnership with dashcam maker Nexar. The proposal was never executed, but documents suggest the company sought to expand its surveillance capabilities beyond stationary cameras to continuous tracking of vehicles across multiple locations without clear disclosure to passengers or drivers.
What happened
Flock Safety reportedly pitched a plan to Georgia's Office of the Attorney General in August 2025 to partner with dashcam maker Nexar and turn approximately 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery service vehicles into a mobile automated license plate reading (ALPR) network.
The presentation obtained by 404 Media proposed integrating ALPR technology into rideshare dashcams, which would allow continuous scanning of license plates as vehicles traveled rather than relying solely on stationary pole-mounted cameras.
Flock told 404 Media it never executed the Nexar partnership.
Reported impact
The proposed network could have created a roaming private ALPR system accessible to multiple organizations, potentially expanding Flock's existing surveillance network of over 120,000 stationary cameras.
The presentation did not clarify whether Uber, Lyft, drivers, or passengers would have been informed about data collection and where the data would be sent.
Index analysis
The proposal represents an expansion from traditional fixed-location ALPR surveillance to continuous mobile surveillance, where every trip to airports, grocery stores, apartment complexes, and other locations would feed data into the network.
While police departments already operate mobile ALPRs in patrol cars, and repossession companies use camera-equipped vehicles, this proposal sought a much broader private network spanning hundreds of thousands of civilian-owned vehicles.
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Sources and evidence
This record was researched and written by the Index, based on the following original reporting.