This video shows us some of the technical capabilities of Flock's new drone system.
The short version: Orwell Day's look at Flock's drone system shows surveillance creeping from fixed cameras into the sky, raising the stakes for anyone tracking mass surveillance expansion.
Our Take
Credit to the Orwell Day channel for digging into Flock's drone capabilities, because this is exactly the kind of mission creep we've been warning about. ALPR cameras bolted to a pole at a fixed intersection are bad enough — they're a permanent record of your movements. But a drone extends that same tracking logic into three dimensions, with the ability to follow a vehicle or a person well past the edge of any single camera's field of view. That's not an incremental upgrade, that's a different category of surveillance.
The video also references Palantir's push to fuse satellite imagery, radar, and camera feeds into one real-time tracking system. Whether or not every piece of that story pans out, the direction is unmistakable: companies are racing to stitch isolated surveillance tools into a single, seamless dragnet. Flock's drones don't exist in a vacuum — they're another data source feeding into bigger platforms, and the public rarely gets a vote on any of it.
That's why state-level pushback matters. Montana's efforts show that when Washington won't act, statehouses can. If you want to see what's already watching your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait for Congress to catch up, our take-action page has ways to push back right now.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Orwell Day, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.