You’re Being Tracked in National Parks (Park Rangers Are Furious)
The short version: Silicon Cowboy's investigation shows Flock ALPRs have crept into national parks, turning a trip to Yosemite into another entry in a searchable vehicle-tracking database.
Our Take
National parks are supposed to be the one place you can unplug — turns out even Yosemite's entrance roads are getting wired up with Flock Safety cameras logging your plate, your car's color, dents, bumper stickers, all of it. Silicon Cowboy's reporting on current and former Park Rangers pushing back deserves credit, because it confirms what we've been saying: "just traffic monitoring" is the standard cover story every time one of these systems gets installed, and it never stays that narrow. Once a vehicle fingerprint exists in a searchable database, it's available to whatever agency Flock's data-sharing agreements allow, no warrant required.
The unencrypted feeds and exposed law ranger logs mentioned in the video aren't a one-off glitch — they're a pattern. We've covered similar security failures with these camera networks before, and the National Park Service apparently didn't ask hard enough questions before adding cameras to federal land that belongs to everyone, including people who never agreed to be tracked just for taking a scenic drive.
If cameras are showing up on roads you use — parks, main streets, or your own neighborhood — check our map to see what's already been documented near you, and hit up our take-action page for the FOIA templates and local strategies to push back before this becomes background noise nobody questions.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Silicon Cowboy, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.