The Surveillance Crisis
The short version: UnCheck's "The Surveillance Crisis" uses our camera map to show how normalized ALPR sprawl has become, and why mapping it matters.
Our Take
UnCheck's new video, "The Surveillance Crisis," pulls from our camera map to frame just how far automated license plate readers have spread into everyday American life. We appreciate the credit, and more importantly, we appreciate a creator treating this as the systemic issue it is rather than a one-off local controversy.
That's really the point of mapping these cameras in the first place. One Flock pole on one street corner looks like a minor local decision. Thousands of them, stitched together into a nationwide network that logs where you drive, when, and how often, looks like something else entirely. Independent coverage that connects those dots for a wider audience is exactly how this conversation moves from "did you know there's a camera near my house" to "why does a private company get to build a surveillance dragnet with so little oversight."
If this video is the first time you're hearing about Flock Safety and ALPR networks, don't just take our word or UnCheck's for it — check the map for cameras near you, and if you want to do more than watch, our take action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of UnCheck, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.