Flock, the Camera Company That Logs Where Your Car Goes, Will Now Dump Most of That Data After a Week Instead of a Month
by Jerome London · Thought CatalogUpdated 4 hours ago, August 14, 2026
Flock, the license-plate camera company whose scans track where cars travel, is shortening how long it keeps that information by default — a change that follows repeated cases of police misusing the data.
Right now, every time your car passes one of Flock’s cameras, that scan sits in a searchable database for a full month. The company just cut its default to a week after cops kept getting caught misusing it.
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