Flock does NOT respect your privacy
The short version: A Wyoming creator's satirical take on Flock Safety cameras underscores a truth we keep hammering: these networks track you, not just crime.
Our Take
Credit to Wyo Support for pointing a little humor at a very unfunny subject. Flock Safety has built a business model on convincing local governments that blanket license plate surveillance is just "public safety infrastructure." The joke lands because it's true: there's nothing neighborly about a camera logging every car that passes, timestamped and searchable, often shared across jurisdictions with zero public vote.
What videos like this do well is cut through the marketing language. Flock doesn't sell itself as mass surveillance — it sells "community safety," dashboards, and crime-solving success stories. But the underlying system doesn't distinguish between a wanted vehicle and your daily commute to work, the clinic, or a protest. That data sits in a database, and policies about who can access it, for how long, and under what oversight vary wildly from town to town, if they exist at all.
If this clip made you raise an eyebrow, take the next step: check our camera map to see what's already watching your routes, and visit take action for ways to push back at your next city council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Wyo Support, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.