Flock has long claimed its cameras cannot identify or track people, but a police tool reconstructed from more than 450 files exposed on its login pages does exactly that, following drivers by movement patterns alone.

The tool ships with prewritten searches that ask for witnesses based on which cars pass a neighborhood most, or drivers who hit three stores in three days. Fourteen of them need no plate, no name, and no description, just a place, a window of time, and a behavior.

People are already angry about these cameras, and, depending on how it’s rolled out, this may make things much worse.

One Texas officer searched more than 83,000 cameras hunting a woman who had an abortion, and roughly one in five of 12 million logged searches gave a reason as thin as "investigation."

Flock says new safeguards land by year end, including automatic lockouts and mandatory case codes.

Prime Air plans to expand from 11 sites to nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026. Each site covers about 175 square miles and can deliver in 30 minutes, though a few mishaps have already occurred.

The MK30 scans the airspace itself with an onboard detect-and-avoid system, processing its own camera and sensor data with no live feed for anyone to watch.

At the drop point you picked at checkout, it clears people, pets, and vehicles below before letting go of the package.

Millions of items qualify, from groceries and cosmetics to medications and electronics. Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Syracuse, and Boise are next in line, and Darlington in England became the first stop outside the US.

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Here's what to do:

🔢 Step 1: Run your plate Enter your license plate at Have I Been Flocked. It checks published audit logs, not live camera feeds, and it discards whatever you type in.

🗺️ Step 2: Map your commute Drop your usual route into FlockHopper and see how many crowd-reported cameras you pass on a normal Tuesday.

🧠 Step 3: Decode the reason field Paste any search reasons you find into ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude and ask: "What legal standard, if any, does this reason satisfy for a warrantless database search?"

🏛️ Step 4: Ask your own city Have your AI draft a short public records request for your police department's plate reader search logs and retention policy, then send it.

Is a network that can name your associates still just a plate reader? And what would you actually build if a drone could reach your yard in 30 minutes? See you next time! 🚀

Stay informed, stay curious, and stay ahead with Jumble!

Zoe from Jumble