#deflock
The short version: A mountain biker's quick #deflock clip shows how everyday riders are stumbling onto Flock Safety cameras in the wild and calling them out.
Our Take
We don't have much to go on here beyond a hashtag and a channel name, but that's kind of the point: #deflock content is popping up from creators who have nothing to do with privacy advocacy as a day job. 8Wheel MTB looks like a mountain biking channel, which tells you something important — this surveillance dragnet isn't confined to highways and city streets. ALPR cameras are showing up on rural roads, trailheads, and the kind of backroads cyclists and off-roaders actually use.
That's exactly how grassroots awareness spreads. Someone's out for a ride, spots a camera pole bolted to a sign or a tree, and suddenly they're asking why a sports company's hardware is logging their plate on a road to a trail. We can't verify specifics from a bare title and description, but the pattern is familiar: ordinary people documenting what they find, tagging it #deflock, and pushing the conversation into spaces Flock's PR team never anticipated.
If you've spotted a reader near your own rides or commutes, log it on our map so other riders and drivers know it's there, and check take-action for ways to push back at the city council level before these cameras become permanent fixtures on every route out of town.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of 8Wheel MTB, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.