A fast-growing camera network is tracking American drivers everywhere, and it's bad news for privacy, protesters, and anyone wrongly flagged by its AI.

• Over 100,000 Flock cameras across the US log license plates, car colors, bumper stickers, even dents, into a nationwide database used by police.
• The AI system already got a Denver woman wrongly accused of package theft — she had to prove her own innocence with home camera footage.
• Flock has 12,000-plus clients, including 5,000 police agencies, businesses, and HOAs, yet Congress has not regulated it at all.
• The company has been caught lying — denying it shares data with federal agencies when it actually has Homeland Security contracts.
• Texas police used it to track a woman who crossed state lines after abortion pill complications, raising fears it chills lawful protest.

Outlook: With Flock now valued at $7.5 billion, these cameras will keep spreading fast unless lawmakers step in to regulate them.