Flock leaked cops' license plate searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing
404 Media · Joseph Cox · June 11, 2026 · United States
Flock pages exposed the reasons officers ran searches — and sometimes the specific plates — to public search engines. 404 Media and privacy advocates reproduced the leak; the company acknowledged it. Follows earlier reporting that some Flock camera feeds were exposed to the open internet.
Why it is in the file
Undercuts 'the data is locked down' claims. Investigative queries and plates were enumerable via ordinary search engines.
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