Fusion Centers Are Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
The short version: Fusion centers built for terrorism threats are now writing intelligence bulletins on ordinary people who criticize Flock cameras online, per Verified Privacy VPN's breakdown of records 404 Media obtained.
Our Take
This is the part of the ALPR fight that should scare you more than the cameras themselves. Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net) dug through four fusion center bulletins and an FBI headquarters email summary — records 404 Media pried loose on August 12th — and found that criticizing license plate readers on TikTok and Instagram is apparently enough to get you a mention in a "law enforcement sensitive" document. Six agencies, one private Instagram handle named outright, all for people posting opinions about surveillance cameras on public streets.
Fusion centers exist, on paper, to stop terrorism. In practice, they've become a pipeline for treating dissent as a threat category, and Flock's rollout is giving them fresh material. When the people flagging camera locations and organizing pushback become the subject of intelligence bulletins, the chilling effect isn't hypothetical — it's the point. Watching the watchers is now apparently watch-worthy itself.
Credit to Verified Privacy VPN for walking through every bulletin and naming what the records actually say. If this is what happens to people posting on social media, it's worth knowing what's parked on your own street — check the map and see how to push back at take action.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net), published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.