ALPR, Data Centers & Water Plants: Who’s Protecting the Data?
The short version: A tech-sector video linking ALPR cameras, data centers, and water plants highlights how license plate data lives inside poorly secured critical infrastructure networks.
Our Take
DiventionTechnologies puts its finger on something we harp on constantly: ALPR data doesn't float in some abstract cloud, it sits on physical servers, often inside the same data center ecosystems that run water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure. When a company like Flock Safety says "trust us with your neighborhood's driving history," they're also implicitly asking you to trust whatever cybersecurity posture their vendors and subcontractors have. We've seen how that trust gets repaid — breaches, leaked feeds, and loose data-sharing agreements that spread your movements to agencies you've never heard of.
The critical infrastructure angle matters because it reframes ALPR networks as part of a bigger attack surface. If a water plant's systems can be compromised, so can a camera network bolted onto a municipal network with minimal oversight. Nobody voted to make their daily commute part of a soft target for hackers or a convenient subpoena target for anyone with a badge and a form letter. Credit to the creator for connecting dots that most surveillance coverage leaves separate.
If you want to see how exposed your own area is, check our camera map to find the ALPRs already logging your plate, and then head to our take-action page to push back before more of this infrastructure goes up unchecked.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of DiventionTechnologies, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.