They Call Us 'TERRORISTS' for Exposing THEIR Surveillance Cameras!

Our Take

When the head of a company that scans your license plate thousands of times a day starts calling ordinary people who map that surveillance 'worse than Antifa,' you've learned something important — not about the mappers, but about the company. Lauren Fix's Car Coach Reports piece walks through that Flock Safety CEO comment alongside tools like DeFlock, HaveIBeenFlocked, and SignalTrace, and the takeaway is simple: an industry that insists it's just helping police find bad guys gets awfully defensive when the public tries to find its cameras.

That defensiveness is the tell. Flock's whole pitch rests on the idea that this is benign infrastructure, quietly logging millions of drivers' movements for 'public safety.' But branding transparency projects as extremist activity suggests the company understands, better than most, how uncomfortable people would be if they actually knew where these cameras are and how the data flows to police, ICE, and beyond. Calling citizen mapping 'terrorism' isn't a security argument — it's a PR reflex from a company that would rather you not look too closely.

We give Fix credit for putting the CEO's own words on the record and connecting them to the broader transparency fight. That's exactly why projects like ours exist — so the public, not just the vendor, gets to decide what counts as normal. If you want to see what's actually watching your street, check our camera map, and if you want to push back on unaccountable ALPR deployment in your town, our take-action guide is a good place to start.