Flock Is Overhauling the Way It Stores Your Data Amid National Outrage #shorts
The short version: Flock's move to cut data retention to seven days and require search justifications is a damage-control gesture, not a rollback of the surveillance network itself.
Our Take
Credit to the New York Post for putting a number on what many of us already suspected: Flock is feeling the heat. Shrinking retention from 30 days to 7 and adding a "justify your search" step for cops sounds like progress, and on paper it is a smaller data pile for departments to abuse or leak. But notice what didn't change — the cameras are still up, still reading every plate that passes, still feeding a searchable national database that most residents never voted for and can't opt out of.
Policy tweaks are easy for a company to roll back the next time a police chief complains that a week isn't enough to "solve crimes." Retention windows and audit requirements are internal rules Flock writes and can rewrite; they're not law, and they're not oversight by anyone outside the company. The only durable check on this system is public pressure that forces local governments to either kill their contracts or bind them with real, enforceable limits — not press-release promises.
If you want to know how close this network runs to your own street, check our camera map, and if your town is still debating a Flock contract or renewal, our take-action guide has what you need to show up and push back before the cameras go in, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of New York Post, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.