Lawmakers have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Flock Safety, a company that operates license plate scanning cameras, for allegedly failing to implement cybersecurity protections that expose its camera network to hackers and spies.

In a letter sent by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL, 8th), the lawmakers urge FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson to probe why Flock does not enforce the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA), a security protection that prevents malicious access by someone with knowledge of the account holder’s password.

Wyden and Krishnamoorthi said that while the company offers its law enforcement customers the ability to enable MFA, “Flock does not require it, which the company confirmed to Congress in October,” according to the

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