Flock ALPR Cameras: Surveillance & Privacy #shorts

Our Take

Credit where it's due: STS Technologies LLC packed a real warning into a 60-second short. Flock Safety's ALPR cameras aren't scattered here and there — they're deployed in dense grids across whole cities and counties, quietly building a timeline of every plate that passes. That's the part worth sitting with, even if the video's real goal is moving product.

We'd just add the caveat we always add: this clip is also an ad. STS is selling FlockYou gear off the back of the privacy message, so take the framing as marketing plus a kernel of truth, not a technical breakdown of what Flock actually stores or shares. If you want the unvarnished picture of where these cameras sit in your own neighborhood, that's exactly why we built the map — go look for yourself instead of taking anyone's word for it, ours included.

The bigger point stands regardless of who's saying it: a nationwide network of plate-reading cameras run by a private company, feeding data to police departments with little public oversight, is a mass-surveillance system by any honest definition. If that bothers you, don't just buy a sticker — check take action for ways to push back where it counts, at your city council and county board.