These Cameras Are Tracking Your Car... #police #data #crime #city #information
The short version: Aleks Vranicic's short video distills a hard truth: Flock's camera network has quietly scaled to thousands of towns and billions of scans, with little public debate.
Our Take
Credit to Aleks Vranicic for packing the scale of this problem into a format people will actually watch. The numbers he cites aren't abstract — 5,000-plus communities and roughly 20 billion scans represent a surveillance system that has grown faster than most city councils have bothered to explain to the people footing the bill.
What makes Flock different from a single traffic camera on a bad intersection is the network effect. Every plate read gets logged, timestamped, and shared across jurisdictions, building a rolling record of where you drive, when, and how often — all without a warrant, and often without residents ever voting on whether they wanted it. That's not crime-fighting infrastructure, that's a tracking system that happens to also catch some crime.
If a video like this makes you want to know what's actually watching your own street, check our camera map to see nearby Flock devices, and if you want to push back, our take-action page has concrete steps for raising this with local officials before the next contract renewal sails through unnoticed.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Aleks Vranicic, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.