"ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras" 16 October 2025

A division of ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy’s criminal investigation division all had access to Flock’s nationwide network of tens of thousands of AI-enabled cameras that constantly track the movements of vehicles, and by extension people, according to a letter sent by Senator Ron Wyden and shared with 404 Media. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the section of ICE that had access and which has reassigned more than ten thousand employees to work on the agency’s mass deportation campaign, performed nearly two hundred searches in the system, the letter says.

In the letter Senator Wyden says he believes Flock is uninterested in fixing the room for abuse baked into its platform, and says local officials can best protect their constituents from such abuses by removing the cameras entirely...

...“I now believe that abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable, and that Flock is unable and uninterested in preventing them,” Senator Wyden’s letter, addressed to Flock CEO Garrett Langley, reads...

...Law enforcement officials typically perform searches in Flock without a warrant or court order. An ongoing lawsuit, filed by civil liberties organization the Institute for Justice, argues that warrantless use of Flock cameras is unconstitutional, saying “It is functionally impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their movements tracked, photographed, and stored in an AI-assisted database that enables the warrantless surveillance of their every move. This civil rights lawsuit seeks to end this dragnet surveillance program.”..

...Flock declined to comment...