Flock is relaying info to your Insurance Companies
The short version: NO LIFT! reports that Flock's ALPR network may be feeding vehicle mileage data to insurance companies, raising fresh alarms about how far this surveillance web really reaches.
Our Take
Credit to the crew at NO LIFT! for digging into a corner of the Flock story that doesn't get enough attention: what happens to all that license plate data once it's collected. We've spent most of our coverage focused on police access, but this video is a reminder that Flock's business model depends on selling access, and "customers" isn't limited to law enforcement agencies.
If insurance companies are getting mileage estimates pulled from ALPR scans, that's a textbook example of surveillance mission creep. A network sold to communities as a crime-fighting tool quietly becomes an infrastructure for tracking your driving habits, feeding into rate calculations, claims disputes, or who knows what else. Nobody voted for that. Nobody signed a form agreeing to it. Your car just drove past a camera on a pole, and now a private company has a data point on you that can be monetized or leveraged in ways you'll never see coming.
This is exactly why we keep pushing people to find out what's actually watching them. Check our camera map to see what's near you, and if you want to push back on this kind of unaccountable data pipeline in your own city, our take-action page has concrete steps to get started.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of NO LIFT!, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.