Let's build flock cameras everywhere
The short version: A creator pokes at the casual, almost gleeful way Flock camera networks keep multiplying, and we think that tone deserves wider attention.
Our Take
Credit to Tom Runs His Mouth for naming the thing plainly: Flock cameras aren't creeping in through careful public debate, they're being rolled out like a franchise expansion — one city council rubber-stamp at a time. The flippant "let's build flock cameras everywhere" framing is funny because it's barely an exaggeration. That's how mass surveillance infrastructure actually spreads in this country: quietly, cheaply, and faster than most residents even notice a pole went up on their street.
What gets lost in the sales pitch is that every one of these cameras is logging plate reads, timestamps, and location data on everyone who drives past, regardless of suspicion. Multiply that by thousands of intersections and you get a de facto national tracking grid built by a private company, sold to police departments with little public input and even less oversight. The casualness of "everywhere" is exactly the problem.
If you want to see how far that expansion has already gone in your own backyard, check our camera map, and if you'd rather it stop at your city limits, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back before the next pole goes up.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Tom Runs His Mouth, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.