Off grid comms
The short version: A mass-surveillance channel's look at off-grid communications underscores why reducing your digital footprint matters as license plate readers quietly log every drive you take.
Our Take
The channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency built this video around off-grid comms — ways to communicate outside the networks that governments and corporations can tap, log, and correlate. We don't have the transcript in front of us, so we won't pretend to relay specifics, but the instinct behind the video is one we share: when every layer of modern life defaults to being recorded, people start looking for the exits.
That instinct matters for ALPR watchers too. Off-grid messaging doesn't help much if your car is still broadcasting your location to a Flock Safety camera every time you pull out of the driveway. License plate readers are the physical-world counterpart to the digital tracking this creator spends 400+ videos warning about — passive, automated, and largely invisible until you go looking for it. Check our camera map to see what's logging your plate in your own neighborhood.
Credit to the channel for keeping a steady spotlight on surveillance creep even when mainstream coverage looks away. If camera networks like this concern you as much as encrypted radios and mesh networks concern this creator, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back on local ALPR deployments.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.