Your City Tracks 8 Billion Car Scans Yearly
The short version: A new short from Spy In Your Pocket breaks down how Flock's ALPR network turns everyday driving into billions of logged, searchable data points.
Our Take
Spy In Your Pocket's latest short does the math most drivers never think about: a single Flock camera can scan 1,200 plates a minute, and multiply that across a national network and you get billions of scans a year. That's not a hypothetical dystopia, it's the current architecture of American streets. Every trip to the pharmacy, every visit to a lawyer's office, every drive to a protest becomes a timestamped, location-tagged entry in a database that local police departments and, in many cases, outside agencies can query.
What makes this video worth your two minutes is that it doesn't just fearmonger, it points toward the legal levers communities have to push back. That matters because the technology is being installed faster than most city councils understand what they're approving. Public records requests, data-sharing audits, and local ordinances are the tools that have actually slowed deployments in some towns.
If you want to see whether this is already happening on your block, check our camera map, and if you're ready to organize against it, our take-action guide has the templates and scripts people are using to get answers from their local governments.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Spy In Your Pocket, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.