Why Everyone Is Talking About FLOCK Cameras & Why Americans Are Cutting Down Surveillance Cameras

Our Take

The guys at Two Guys Against AI lay out something we've been saying for a while: Flock Safety's network isn't a handful of speed cameras, it's a nationwide system quietly logging the movements of every car that passes a reader, regardless of whether that driver has ever been suspected of anything. The video's framing of this as "safety" versus what it actually is — a de facto national vehicle-tracking grid run by a private company with minimal oversight — is exactly the gap we try to close at DeFlock The USA.

What's notable is the second half of their title: people are cutting these cameras down. That's not a tactic we endorse, but it's a data point worth sitting with. When citizens start physically removing government-adjacent infrastructure instead of writing to their city council, it usually means the normal channels — public comment, FOIA requests, local oversight hearings — have failed to produce transparency. Frustration like that doesn't come out of nowhere; it comes from discovering a camera was installed with no public vote, no retention policy explained, and no easy way to find out who's looking at the data.

If you want the legal, non-destructive version of pushing back, start by checking our camera map to see what's been documented near you, then use our take-action resources to push your local government for an actual public hearing before the next contract renewal. Credit to Two Guys Against AI for putting this in front of a wider audience — the more people who understand what Flock's network really is, the harder it gets for cities to install these quietly.