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josephcox.bsky.social
There is so much going on here it is hard to know where to start. Nexar sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. But it also monetizes users' data, uploads blurred images to a publicly available map. Nexar users I spoke to did not know Nexar was posting user data like this www.404media.co/this-company...
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
Nexar is a popular dashcam company, sells to ordinary and rideshare drivers. Nexar already leverages data from those dashcams. There's this map you can go to and see anonymized photos in realtime from cams www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
August 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
Here is the presentation showing the plans. This is a Flock presentation to the Georgia Office of the Attorney General. “Plus Nexar partnership which includes 350k Uber/Lyft and other delivery service devices.”

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A map with the caption “Plus Nexar partnership which includes 350k Uber/Lyft and other delivery service devices.”
August 7, 2026 at 12:53 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
As we previously revealed, surveillance company Flock, that has directly and indirectly provided data to DHS, is exploring a partnership with Nexar. In the hacked material, it said Flock had access to "All" Nexar data products "Worldwide". Flock says no product yet www.404media.co/this-company...
Last week 404 Media reported that surveillance company Flock, which has directly and indirectly provided data to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is looking to integrate with Nexar. Flock is included in the list of companies and organizations given access to Nexar data. In the product column it says Flock has “All,” and under location it says “Worldwide.” A Flock spokesperson told 404 Media “Flock and Nexar do not currently have an integration, and we have no products available for customers.” Fernandez-Ruiz said “Flock Safety’s access to CityStream as part of our collective partnership evaluation is definitively restricted to blurred, unidentifiable data.”
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
Well, hackers got in to Nexar. A file revealed the sorts of organizations and agencies Nexar said had access to this data. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Lyft, Waymo, city governments, Pokémon Go maker Niantic, many many more www.404media.co/this-company...
Entities that have had access to Nexar data include big tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google; Pokémon Go creator Niantic; transportation companies Lyft and Waymo; the cities of Los Angeles and Austin; and many AI and logistics focused companies, according to the document. Microsoft said that it explored using Nexar imagery for mapmaking purposes before March 2023, but that the work did not proceed beyond that evaluation stage. Google said it couldn’t comment on relationships with specific companies, but that it uses third party imagery to update its maps. Amazon said it evaluated Nexar data to improve driver safety a few years ago and decided not to work with the company. Apple did not provide a response in time for publication. Lyft and Waymo did not respond. Niantic declined to comment.
September 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
Most importantly, the hacker was able to access terabytes of Nexar users' dashcam footage. Nexar told me this was users' backups. A parent in a car soothing a baby. Another person on a Facetime call. Also a rideshare driver picking up passengers (you can see faces) www.404media.co/this-company...
September 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
ichkasan.bsky.social
AETHERFANG CHRONICLES
Myrralon – The Data Sanctum
Nexar Sol – Bio-Synthetic Envoy
February 15, 2026 at 11:42 AM
404media.co
A hacker has broken into Nexar, a popular dashcam company that pitches its users’ dashcams as “virtual CCTV cameras” around the world that other people can buy images from

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This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...
www.404media.co
September 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
It turns out every Nexar dashcam came with an AWS key that too high privileges. Which let that individual camera upload its own footage, but also let an attacker access everyone else's footage too. Terabytes of data. Nexar fixed after I contacted www.404media.co/this-company...
The hacker said they were able to access one of Nexar’s AWS buckets, a type of database run by Amazon Web Services, in which they found more than 130 terabytes of data. That included raw recordings from peoples’ dashcams and GPS data, the hacker said. The issue, the hacker said, was that embedded in every Nexar dashcam was a key to this database which had too high privileges, allowing anyone with the key not just to upload their own camera’s data, but also access that of everyone else. Nexar fixed this issue after being contacted by 404 Media this week. Fernandez-Ruiz said these recordings were users’ private backups.
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
Two sources described the partnership between Flock and Nexar as an integration. Nexar's website reads “It's like having eyes all around your vehicle—perfect for anyone who wants complete situational awareness and security.” www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
Two sources described the Flock and Nexar partnership as an integration in the early stages. 404 Media granted the sources anonymity as they weren’t permitted to speak to the press. Flock told 404 Media in an email that it is exploring a relationship with Nexar, and that it currently does not have a product offering with them. Nexar sells a variety of dashcams for a few hundred dollars each, according to its website. Those cameras can provide a front, cabin, and rear view, and in some cases provide “clear license plate capture with Full HD video.” The cameras also record the vehicle’s precise GPS location. Nexar markets the dashcams to “casual drivers,” “long-distance drivers,” “commuters,” and “rideshare” drivers. “It's like having eyes all around your vehicle—perfect for anyone who wants complete situational awareness and security,” Nexar’s website reads.
August 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
aceswild.pmd.social
You shouldn't be using a Nexar dashcam in the first place because they're garbage, but here's a really good second reason.

Flock is a problem. Flock is not okay.

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August 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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April 18, 2026 at 7:22 AM
hypervisible.blacksky.app
“Flock told 404 Media in an email it never executed the partnership with Nexar. But the presentation still shows Flock’s ambitious plan to conscript rideshare and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its network.”
August 7, 2026 at 12:21 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: this company turns dashcams into 'virtual CCTV cameras'. Then hackers got in. Hacker accessed terabytes of users recordings. Includes a user driving to CIA entrance; others at U.S. military bases. Big tech also buying images from the cameras

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This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...
www.404media.co
September 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
Some images taken by Nexar dashcams. Now, the plan is for this dashcam company to integrate with Flock, whose business is based on selling access to license plate data to law enforcement www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
August 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
But there are national security implications too. The public map showed Nexar users driving to U.S. Air Force bases and CIA headquarters. Hacker then found unredacted video of CIA-related driver in the data www.404media.co/this-company...
September 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
digitalwarrior.bsky.social
3/ Here is who is in it. Flock Safety is the license plate reader company already wired into thousands of police departments nationwide. Nexar makes the dashcam hardware. Together they planned to fold rideshare drivers straight into that police surveillance pipeline.
August 9, 2026 at 12:55 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
New: Flock, the ALPR company in thousands of U.S. communities and which ICE taps into, wants to partner with a firm that sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. Nexar gets "trillions" of images a month from the dashcams. Could turn cars into roaming surveillance devices www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month
That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.
www.404media.co
August 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
xdynomite.bsky.social
IT'S OFFICIALLY OUT.

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December 21, 2024 at 9:39 PM
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
I had no idea that dashcams were feeding into a giant data collection product but of course they are and of course the data was hacked www.404media.co/this-company...
This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...
www.404media.co
September 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
samleecole.bsky.social
tangentially related but military speak as marketing for consumer goods always betrays itself. why exactly does someone's dad driving a honda odyssey through suburbia need "complete situational awareness"
Nexar sells a variety of dashcams for a few hundred dollars each, according to its website. Those cameras can provide a front, cabin, and rear view, and in some cases provide “clear license plate capture with Full HD video.” The cameras also record the vehicle’s precise GPS location. Nexar markets the dashcams to “casual drivers,” “long-distance drivers,” “commuters,” and “rideshare” drivers. “It's like having eyes all around your vehicle—perfect for anyone who wants complete situational awareness and security,” Nexar’s website reads.
August 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
josephcox.bsky.social
Nexar hasn't responded to requests for comment. Here is one of its dashcams, marketed to casual drivers, says it captures license plates www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
August 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
ichkasan.bsky.social
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Myrralon – The Data Sanctum
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February 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM
bennettelder.net
I am deeply upset about their plans to bring in nexar dashcams. No privacy anywhere outside. Continuous monitoring of travel.
September 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
404media.co
Flock told 404 Media in an email it never executed the partnership with Nexar. But the presentation still shows Flock’s ambitious plan to conscript rideshare and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its network. www.404media.co/flock-pitche...
Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.
www.404media.co
August 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM