When the company responsible for thousands of cameras suddenly discovers the concept 😭

Our Take

Credit to Broski - archive for packaging a real contradiction into a meme that lands harder than most op-eds: a company that built its entire business model on tracking where your car goes, every day, without a warrant, apparently needed a refresher course on why people value privacy. The joke writes itself because the irony is real — Flock has spent years expanding its camera network into neighborhoods, HOAs, and small-town police departments with barely a public debate, and now acts surprised when people push back.

This isn't just internet humor, though. The "concept" Flock is allegedly discovering — that constant location tracking is a problem — is exactly what residents in thousands of communities have been saying since the first camera went up on their street. The meme resonates because it captures a pattern we track constantly: surveillance infrastructure gets installed quietly, then the company reacts to backlash as if it's a surprise rather than a predictable consequence of normalizing mass tracking.

If you want to see whether this "concept" has already landed in your town, check our camera map to find nearby ALPRs, and head to our take-action page if you're ready to do something about it instead of just laughing at the meme.