Episode 0090: Flock safety camera are out and soon to be everywhere.

Our Take

#TheTechHustle's Episode 0090 asks a question a lot of folks are only now waking up to: are we being watched? Credit to the channel for putting Flock Safety in front of an audience that may have never heard the name before. But the framing — that these cameras are overseas and "coming to America" — undersells how far along this already is. Flock is a Georgia-based company, and its automated license plate readers have been installed by thousands of police departments and HOAs across the U.S. for years, not as some future import.

That distinction matters because the real danger isn't a hypothetical future network, it's the one already quietly logging where you drive, when, and how often, often with no warrant and minimal public oversight. Local governments approve these contracts in budget meetings most residents never attend, and the data can be shared across jurisdictions in ways few people understand until something goes wrong.

If this video got you wondering whether Flock has already reached your neighborhood, stop wondering and check our camera map. And if you want to push back on a system that's expanding faster than most city councils are willing to explain, our take-action page has concrete steps for showing up and saying no.