Is this our fault? ... Episode 1 coming soon
The short version: A paper-animation trailer from Terms With Conditions dresses up Flock camera surveillance as fiction, but the unsettling questions about ALPR networks are all too real.
Our Take
Terms With Conditions is taking an unusual approach to the surveillance beat: paper dioramas and origami animation standing in for the quiet cul-de-sacs where Flock Safety cameras now perch on poles. It's a clever choice. There's something fitting about rendering a mass license-plate-tracking system in flimsy, foldable paper — because that's often how thin the oversight is once these cameras go up.
The trailer doesn't pretend to have answers yet, and that's fine. What it gets right is the framing: this isn't about one camera, it's about the network underneath — location data, police information-sharing, and private companies quietly building a searchable history of where your car has been. That's the exact architecture we track block by block on our camera map, because a single Flock unit is rarely the whole story.
Credit to the Terms With Conditions team for tackling ALPR surveillance in a medium built for a general audience, not just policy wonks. If the series lives up to the trailer, it could pull a lot of people into a conversation that's usually confined to city council minutes. In the meantime, if you're wondering whether your own neighborhood is already part of this system, our take-action page is the place to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Terms With Conditions, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.