Police Spying on Women Using Flock Cameras
The short version: MarketByte's video spotlights officers allegedly misusing Flock Safety ALPRs to track women, including partners, exposing how easily 'public safety' tech becomes a personal surveillance tool.
Our Take
Credit to MarketByte for digging into a problem we've been flagging for a while: the people with the keys to Flock's nationwide camera network aren't just scanning for stolen cars and Amber Alerts. They're human, and humans with unchecked access to a database of everyone's comings and goings will eventually use it to look up an ex, a wife, a coworker, or someone they're fixated on. That's not a hypothetical edge case — it's the predictable outcome of handing law enforcement a tool that logs where every car goes, with audit systems that depend on departments actually reviewing their own officers.
This is the core argument against ALPR networks: it's never just about catching criminals. It's about building a permanent, searchable record of ordinary people's movements that can be abused by anyone with a login, and the public rarely finds out unless a victim comes forward or a leak forces an internal review. Flock markets 'audit trails' and 'transparency portals,' but those only matter if someone's actually watching the watchers — and departments have shown they're often not.
If this story bothers you, don't just get mad and scroll past it. Check our camera map to see how much of this surveillance grid is already sitting in your own neighborhood, and head to our take-action page for concrete steps to push back at your next city council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of MarketByte, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.