⚡ Palantir for Cars Hits U.S. Hardware Stores

Have you driven to the hardware store recently? If you have, your car may be in a searchable database thanks to Flock cameras. These systems scan every license plate, detect gunshots, and provide live footage to police.

All data feeds into Nova, a Palantir-like search platform where cops can look up things like “brown SUV with a dented door.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act request and handed the data over to 404.media who first reported on this.

They produced a PDF showing police departments and locations that use Flock cameras, including 171 Home Depot and Lowe’s locations across the United States.

I ran the document through OCR, uploaded it to the Internet Archive, and made it searchable (the first page is a bit garbled, but the rest is readabable.) Check to see if your store is on the list:

https://archive.org/details/flock-cameras-hardware-stores

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