Flock Cameras Track Innocent Drivers
The short version: Beyond the Algorithm's video underscores a core truth: Flock ALPRs log every driver, guilty or not, turning routine trips into permanent records.
Our Take
Beyond the Algorithm lays out a simple but uncomfortable fact: these cameras don't care whether you're a suspect. They care that you drove past. That distinction is the whole ballgame. Flock Safety's pitch to city councils is about catching criminals, but the technology itself doesn't discriminate between a stolen car and your grocery run — it logs the plate, the time, the location, and the direction of travel for everyone, every time.
That's the part that tends to get lost in the sales pitch. Once a scan exists, it doesn't just vanish after the 'bad guy' is caught. It sits in a database, often shared across agencies and jurisdictions with little oversight, available for queries that have nothing to do with the original justification for installing the camera. Innocence isn't a shield from collection — it's just a label applied after the fact, if anyone bothers to check at all.
This is exactly why we built our map — so you can see how far this network already reaches in your own town, and what it means to live under constant plate-by-plate tracking. If that bothers you as much as it bothers us, head over to our take-action page and do something about the cameras near you.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Beyond the Algorithm, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.