Go Flock Yourself! Nice try.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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"New website let's drivers check their friends and neighbours cars because they can't mind their own fucking business."
On the website it says the data only goes back to December 2025
I've invented a credit card fraud checker. Just reply to my comment with your credit card number and I'll let you know if it's been stolen.
100% accurate results!
give my personal license plate to a third party website to check against privacy invasion
nah, y-you guys go first
There's a lot of could-be's involved here.
So start feeding it lots of random 2 to 8 letter/number strings.
Something I find interesting about this is, there's no verification that you do indeed own the plate you're searching. I'm not sure what mischief you could get up to knowing that the police searched for information on someone else, but it's something to think about.
Honeypot as fuck
It also allows criminals to check if they are already under the eyes of the police. Want to do a drug run? Check if somebody has tracked your vehicle beforehand!
Ooh, that's a good point. Time to get a new car, they know about this one.
You just steal plates from another car. Bonus points if you can find the same model. Most people don't check their front and back every time they hop in - just snag their front plate and swap.
That's a risky move though, if you get caught driving a car with stolen plates, you're in trouble.
I prefer that to there being some requirement that you provide identification to access the audit logs. Actually, what I would really prefer would be for there to be no need for audit logs in the first place, if there were no system to be audited.
The first thing that came to my mind also.
This sounds like another privacy nightmare put on top of the already more than questionable Flock installations.