ESP32 Detects Surveillance: FlockYou Privacy Tool #shorts

Our Take

This is less a deep-dive and more a product teaser: STS Technologies LLC is hawking "FlockYou," a DIY-style ESP32 device marketed as a way to sniff out Flock Safety camera activity. The video is short on technical specifics — we don't get a clear breakdown of what signal or data it's actually detecting, how reliable it is, or what its false-positive rate looks like. That's worth keeping in mind before anyone treats a gadget like this as a substitute for real verification.

Still, the fact that hobbyists and small companies are building consumer-facing tools just to detect ALPR surveillance tells you something important: people don't trust that they'll be told when they're being watched, so they're building their own early-warning systems. That instinct is the same one driving our own camera-mapping work — if the system won't disclose itself, citizens will document it themselves. Check out our camera map to see what's already been logged in your area.

Credit to STS Technologies LLC for putting hardware on this problem. But a blinking LED on a breadboard shouldn't be the end of the conversation — the real fight is local policy, public records requests, and council meetings. If you want to push back on ALPR deployment where you live, our take-action page has concrete steps.