About the data

Fluck is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Flock Safety (Flock Group Inc.). "Flock" and "Flock Safety" are their trademarks. We use them only to name whose devices are shown. Fluck is a free, noncommercial, public-interest project by r12d. It has no ads, no paid tier and no sponsors.

The Flock inventory layer

In November 2025, security researcher Joshua Michael found that a Flock website exposed an access token that worked without logging in and could be used to read device locations. He reported it to Flock and archived the inventory in December 2025. He publishes it at flocksurveillance.org, along with his research papers. Fluck shows a frozen copy, snapshot 2026-08-28.

What Fluck keeps: each device's location (rounded to about a meter), type, status (in service, planned, decommissioned), listed capabilities and the direction it faces.

What Fluck removes: device names, because they often contain street addresses that could identify a private customer such as a homeowner or a small business, and all of Flock's internal IDs, network and organization identifiers, and record dates.

Flock disputes how the inventory was obtained and says it has about 120,000 cameras. The inventory has more entries than that because it includes planned and decommissioned devices and hardware other than cameras. Reporters who checked a random sample of locations found a Flock camera at each one, but we haven't verified every point, and you shouldn't assume we have.

The OpenStreetMap layer

Every night, Fluck downloads the automated license plate readers tagged as Flock in OpenStreetMap (surveillance:type=ALPR with a Flock manufacturer or brand). Volunteers add most of them through DeFlock. Last update: within the last day. To add or fix a camera, edit OpenStreetMap. Fluck picks up the change the next night.

Privacy

Fluck sets no cookies, uses no analytics and keeps no access logs. Your browser loads everything, including the base map, fonts and ZIP code list, from fluck.r12d.ch. Nothing loads from map providers or other third parties. The location button uses your browser's geolocation, and your position never leaves your device. The "Street View" and "OpenStreetMap" links in popups go to those sites, but only if you click them.

Licenses and credits

• Camera reports and base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. The OSM-derived camera layer on this site is offered under the same license.
• Base map tiles and style: Protomaps.
• Map rendering: MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause). Tile format: PMTiles (BSD-3-Clause).
• Fonts: Noto Sans (SIL Open Font License).
• ZIP code centers: U.S. Census Bureau ZCTA gazetteer (public domain).
• Flock inventory: archived and published by Joshua Michael.
• Inspired by DeFlock and Proton's Flock camera map.

Contact and takedown requests

For corrections, legal notices or takedown requests, write to legal@r12d.ch.