Hacking into a street sign somewhere in Toronto. Go DeFlock Canada!!!
The short version: A creator called Orwell Day shows tampering with a Toronto street sign, spotlighting the grassroots DeFlock mapping movement spreading beyond the U.S.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Orwell Day's clip of poking around a street sign in Toronto is a reminder that the fight over automated surveillance infrastructure isn't confined to American streets. Flock Safety's camera network and copycat ALPR systems have been exported north, and Canadians are starting to notice the same poles, the same blinking boxes, the same quiet normalization of tracking every car that passes by.
We don't endorse messing with hardware you don't own — that's a legal risk nobody needs — but the impulse behind it is worth taking seriously. People are frustrated that this gear went up without public debate, without clear answers about who sees the data, and without any real off-ramp once it's installed. A video like this is really a symptom of that frustration, not a how-to guide.
The better move, on either side of the border, is documentation over sabotage: find the cameras, log them, and make the network visible to everyone else who's asking the same questions. That's exactly what our camera map is for, and it's a model worth replicating anywhere these systems spread.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Orwell Day, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.