Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

A cybersecurity researcher published an interactive map built from a December 2025 snapshot of Flock’s own records that reveals roughly 300,000 surveillance devices across the United States: more than 170,000 cameras plus some 130,000 supplemental units (including about 27,000 acoustic detectors and networking hardware). The dataset lists device names, coordinates and models (e.g., Falcon cameras and Picard processing units) and highlights concentrated deployments - 860 devices near Chicago O’Hare’s Rosemont Public Safety Department, a camera labeled “FBI Pilot Camera” at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, and a unit described as “C-F-23 FOXTROT MALE HOLDING 2/SHOWERS” at the Silverdale Detention Center. The map’s methodology, drawn from Flock’s ArcGIS entries rather than crowd-sourced tips, was cited during a Senate subcommittee hearing and confirmed on-site in random Arizona checks.

The researcher says the locations were retrievable because Flock’s servers exposed an access token, which he reported to the company in November 2025 before archiving the data and publishing findings in January; Flock later asserted it had never been hacked even after the researcher’s download and appears to have fixed the exposure. Civil liberties groups have criticized Flock for misleading claims, and the map’s author now faces a trademark complaint aimed at taking the site offline. The researcher warns the network creates a pervasive system for tracking vehicle movements with national security and transparency implications.