🚨 Flock Safety: The Billion Dollar Surveillance Company Tracking Your Every Move!

Our Take

Techish's breakdown of Flock Safety's meteoric rise is worth your attention, and not just because of the eye-popping $7.5 billion valuation. When a company built on scanning license plates in your neighborhood becomes a unicorn, that tells you something about where the money in "public safety" is really flowing. It's not into community policing or trauma-informed response. It's into camera networks that quietly log where you drive, when, and how often.

What the video captures well is the scale problem. Flock isn't a handful of cameras in a few big cities anymore — it's thousands of small and mid-sized towns signing contracts, often without much public debate, stitching together a de facto national tracking grid one HOA and city council vote at a time. Each individual deployment might look modest, but the aggregate is a surveillance network larger than almost anything a government agency could have built on its own, now run by a private company with its own incentives to expand.

That's exactly why we built the map — so you can see whether these cameras have already landed near you instead of finding out after the fact. Credit to Techish for laying out the business side of this so clearly; if the numbers alarm you as much as they alarm us, check take action for ways to push back at the local level, where these decisions actually get made.