120,000 Hidden Cameras Are Tracking Your Car! 📸 #Shorts #Tech
The short version: Techi Buddy's short video puts a number on Flock Safety's ALPR network, and that number should worry anyone who values not being tracked by default.
Our Take
Credit to Techi Buddy for boiling down a sprawling surveillance system into a 60-second wake-up call. The headline figure — 120,000 cameras feeding a searchable nationwide database — isn't shock-value clickbait, it's roughly where Flock Safety's own deployment numbers have been trending as the company signs up police departments, HOAs, and private businesses at a breakneck pace.
What the video captures in miniature is the core problem we cover every day: these aren't isolated traffic cameras watching an intersection. They're networked nodes that log your plate, location, and timestamp, then make that record queryable by any agency plugged into the system, often with little transparency about who's searching, why, or how long your movements stay on file. A short video can't get into audit logs or retention policies, but it does the important work of making people ask the question in the first place — who's watching, and why didn't I know about this?
If this is the first you're hearing that a camera near your house might be part of that network, it's worth checking our map to see what's already been documented in your area, and visiting our take-action page if you want to push back on a deployment near you.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of techi buddy, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.