Roadside Cameras Store Millions of Images

A hacked Flock roadside camera's storage revealed roughly 21 days of logs that produced about 1.6 million images and tracked ~50,200 vehicles, while its on‑device computer vision explicitly detected people, license plates, bicycles, and even small graphics like bumper stickers. The breach shows that vendor claims of 'encrypted, limited' edge processing can be undermined by physical compromise and key extraction, exposing vast, searchable surveillance datasets. — Municipal and private camera deployments are collecting far more granular, identifiable data than public debate assumes, raising urgent questions about consent, retention, oversight, and vendor security.