Aux États-Unis, un mouvement baptisé « Deflock » s’attaque aux caméras de l’entreprise Flock

Our Take

Credit to Jeremy_Insights for putting this story in front of a French-speaking audience — it's a reminder that what started as a scattered American backlash against license plate cameras is becoming an international talking point. When a foreign-language channel is explaining to its viewers why a company called Flock Safety and a counter-movement called DeFlock matter, that's a signal the surveillance debate has outgrown local news cycles.

The core facts the video gestures at are worth repeating plainly: thousands of these cameras now sit on utility poles and intersections across the country, quietly logging the plate, location, and timestamp of nearly every car that passes, then handing that data to police departments and, in many cases, other agencies far beyond the jurisdiction that installed the camera. No warrant, no court order, just a rolling record of where you drive. That's the architecture DeFlock volunteers have been mapping block by block, precisely because Flock and its law enforcement partners don't publish comprehensive, easy-to-find lists of camera locations themselves.

Our job is to keep that map growing and keep pressure on local councils who approve these contracts with little public debate. If this video is your first introduction to the issue, start with our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and check our take-action page for ways to push back at the city-council level before the next camera goes up.