People Are Covering Flock Cameras. Is This the Beginning of a Privacy Backlash?
The short version: DiventionTechnologies asks whether people covering Flock cameras signals a real privacy backlash, and we think it's a symptom worth taking seriously.
Our Take
Credit to DiventionTechnologies for putting a camera lens on something a lot of outlets won't touch directly: ordinary people getting fed up enough to physically mess with Flock Safety hardware. Whether you call it vandalism or civil disobedience, the fact that this is even a conversation says something about how fast these ALPR networks have spread without most residents ever being asked for consent. Nobody votes on these installs. They just show up on a pole near your house.
We're not in the business of telling people to go tamper with gear — that's a legal risk and it doesn't fix the underlying problem. The cameras keep multiplying even if one unit gets a bag thrown over it. The real leverage is knowing where this stuff is actually deployed near you and pushing back through city councils, public records requests, and local organizing, the stuff that actually gets contracts canceled or policies tightened. That starts with visibility, which is exactly why we built the map of known Flock and ALPR locations across the country.
If this video's framing of a 'privacy backlash' has any teeth, it's because people are finally connecting the dots between a quiet camera on a pole and a searchable database of everywhere their car has been. That anger is useful energy — but it needs a target smarter than a traffic pole. Check our take-action page for ways to channel it into something that actually moves the needle on these programs.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of DiventionTechnologies, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.