Privacy Bee

Who is watching you drive?

A Flock Safety automated licence plate reader: a camera head and solar panel mounted on a roadside 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. Then it files them by time and place. It does not need a crime, a suspect or a reason to start.

105,934 cameras That is not an estimate. It is how many volunteers have physically found and pinned on a public map. It is the floor, not the total. Flock says the real number is higher.

Source: OpenStreetMap taginfo Aug 19, 2026

It is not a
photo. It is
a timeline.

One read of your plate is nothing. More than 20 billion a month, about 660 million every day, put in order, is a map of your life: the driveway you parked in overnight, the building you turn into every Sunday, the medical clinic you visited, the protest you were seen leaving. Your police department does not hold that map. A private company does, in its own cloud, and you are asked to take on trust that nobody goes looking.

Source: NBC News Nov 2, 2025

  • 526 times Norfolk’s cameras logged one resident’s car in four months, about four a day. A second driver’s, 849 times. Neither was accused of any crime.

    Source: NBC News Sep 18, 2025

  • 46 of the 50 officers the Washington Post found charged with or accused of misusing a plate reader had used Flock’s. In 26 cases prosecutors said the target was a wife, a girlfriend, an ex, or a woman he wanted to meet.

    Source: The Washington Post Aug 2, 2026

Anyone with
a login.

Every search leaves a line in an audit log. Researchers pulled 12 million of them through public records requests, and the reason field is whatever the officer typed. 75% of Flock’s police customers have joined the national lookup tool, so the search can come from anywhere.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation November 2025

Sources: Sen. Ron Wyden’s letter to Flock Oct 16, 2025

And it gets worse.

Flock OS Investigate (formerly Flock Nova) buys your data from Data Brokers, turning a picture of your car into a massive privacy violation, exposing your entire personal life.

Enhanced from data brokers

3,000+ data segments

Researching across data brokers…

Linked: Jason Smith, Jr

Household: Steven (brother), Maria (spouse), 2 minors

  • Estimated Income $78,400 to $92,000
  • Guns and Ammunition 4 purchases, 2025
  • Outdoor/Hunting & Shooting Active
  • Voting Registration and Party Identification Opposition party
  • Purchase History or Reported Interest in Health Topics Diabetes
  • Activism & Social Issues 3 rallies attended, 2025
  • Social Media and Internet Accounts 6 linked
  • Attendance at Sporting Events Season ticket holder

What data brokers add to a plate read

You can stop them.

Delete your profiles from the Data Brokers that sell to Flock and there is nothing left for them to query.

Privacy Bee blocks their ability to follow you beyond the plate on your car (which is public). 🎉

Enhanced from data brokers

No data found

Researching across data brokers…

Linked: Jason Smith, Jr

Household: Steven (brother), Maria (spouse), 2 minors

  • Estimated Income $78,400 to $92,000
  • Guns and Ammunition 4 purchases, 2025
  • Outdoor/Hunting & Shooting Active
  • Voting Registration and Party Identification Opposition party
  • Purchase History or Reported Interest in Health Topics Diabetes
  • Activism & Social Issues 3 rallies attended, 2025
  • Social Media and Internet Accounts 6 linked
  • Attendance at Sporting Events Season ticket holder

Cutting the data brokers out

Find out what
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.

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  • We will never sell your data. Ever.

We delete your records from 1,118 Data Brokers and 185,264 other sites that publish personal information, then continue to scrub them whenever the data reappears, 24/7/365.

Privacy Bee running on a desktop monitor, laptop, tablet and phone: a data broker list showing companies monitored, exposures detected and exposures removed, alongside family protection and removal activity.
Every exposure, every removal, every re-exposure, on every device

  • Removal from facial recognition databases

    Your face is a biometric plate. It comes out of the same brokers, on the same schedule.

  • Search engine results monitoring

    What a search for your name returns, watched, and pushed back down when it resurfaces.

  • Dark web and hacker forum monitoring

    Breach corpora and paste sites, checked for your records continuously.

  • Tiered escalation, up to the law

    When a broker ignores a request, we escalate, invoking applicable privacy legislation to legally compel removal.

  • Proof for every removal

    Every removal comes with a screenshot. When a broker republishes you, it is detected and deleted again automatically.

  • Real people, in the United States

    Removal specialists here handle your requests. We do not offshore this work. SOC 2 Type II certified, ISO 27001 compliant.

Vehicle tracking: license plate

  2. welfare check Source: FOX6 Milwaukee (opens in a new tab)

    Milwaukee Police Department officer Josue Ayala · Charged February 2026

    179 unauthorised searches: more than 50 on a person he was dating, more than 100 on that person’s ex. No internal system caught it. A victim found it by looking up their own plate.

  3. immigration violation Source: Patch (opens in a new tab)

    A DEA agent, using a Palos Heights, Illinois officer’s login · 27-28 January 2025

    24 searches on a borrowed account, for a purpose Illinois law prohibits. The officer kept his job.

  11. ICE WARRANT Source: 404 Media (opens in a new tab)

    Local and state police, via records from Danville, Illinois PD · June 2024 to May 2025

    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.

  13. (no reason given) Source: The Washington Post (opens in a new tab)

    At least 50 officers charged with or accused of misuse · Reviewed 2026

    Flock’s system was used in 46 of the 50 cases. In 26, prosecutors said the officer was tracking a wife, a girlfriend, an ex, an ex’s new partner, or a woman he wanted to meet.

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How this page is sourced

Every factual claim is sourced to named reporting, court filings, government records, or the companies’ own published statements, and each is linked at the point it is made. Where Flock Safety has disputed a report, its response is quoted alongside. Figures are accurate as at the date shown beside them and may since have changed.

About the data brokers shown

The data brokers named and shown on this page are illustrative. Which specific brokers Flock Safety buys from is not publicly known. What is on the record is that its investigative product draws on data brokers, and that Flock has never stated either way whether it supplies commercially available data.

The company marks shown are a broad, representative sample of the data-broker industry, which is the industry Privacy Bee files deletion demands against. Their appearance here is not an assertion that any one of them supplies Flock Safety, nor that any of them endorses this page. Statements about what that industry sells describe the industry generally and are drawn from the Federal Trade Commission’s published findings.

About the imagery and the records

Photographs of vehicles and people are licensed stock or synthetic imagery, used for illustration. They do not depict real searches, real records or real individuals, and the people in the investigator’s panel do not exist: those portraits are the output of a generative model, in the public domain because no human authored them.

Three of the vehicle photographs carry a visible registration. Those are the plates as they appeared in the licensed photographs, published that way by the photographers who took them. No plate shown is connected to any name, record, search or person described anywhere on this page. Every name, household and value in the investigator’s panel is invented, though the field names it uses are verbatim segment names published by the Federal Trade Commission.

About the people and agencies named

Where an officer, an agency or a police department is named, it is named because a court record, a public records response or a named news organisation named them, and the citation sits beside the claim. A criminal charge is an allegation. Nothing here asserts guilt beyond what the cited source reports, and where a case was still open at the date shown it may since have resolved either way.

The search reasons shown in quotation marks are reproduced verbatim from officers’ own audit log entries, obtained under public records law. That wording is theirs, not ours. It is quoted because the record is the evidence, including where it is a slur.

What Privacy Bee can and cannot do

Privacy Bee removes personal information from data brokers and people-search sites. It cannot delete a photograph lawfully taken on a public road, and this page does not claim otherwise.

Our own coverage figures are current as at the date of this page and change as brokers appear and disappear. What can be removed, and how quickly, varies by broker and by jurisdiction: where we escalate, we invoke the privacy law that applies to you, and not every record is subject to one. Nothing here is legal advice.

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