Flock Shouldn’t Profit From Surveilling Us | #aclu #flock #shorts | ACLU
The short version: The ACLU's short is right: Flock's business model turns constant tracking of our cars into a revenue stream, and that should bother everyone.
Our Take
The ACLU keeps its message simple and that's exactly why it lands: a private company is building a profit model on top of warrantless surveillance of ordinary people driving to work, church, or the pharmacy. Flock Safety doesn't just sell cameras to police departments, it sells access, data retention, and ever-expanding "network effects" as cities and HOAs buy in. The more plates it scans, the more valuable the system becomes to Flock's bottom line, regardless of whether any of us ever did anything wrong.
That's the part that should give you pause even if you've got nothing to hide. The incentive structure rewards blanket coverage, not targeted investigation. Nobody voted for a corporation to have a financial stake in logging everyone's movements, yet that's the arrangement quietly rolling out block by block across the country. Short-form videos like this one from the ACLU matter because they put that plain fact in front of people who've never heard the word 'ALPR' and don't realize a camera near their house might already be feeding a nationwide database.
Credit to the ACLU for keeping the spotlight on this. If you want to see how close this surveillance has crept to your own street, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back at a city council meeting or push your local officials for transparency, our take-action resources can help you get started.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ACLU, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.