Eric moutsos Flock Safety has a message for the public, and it’s not good.
The short version: Eric Moutsos flags a telling shift in Flock Safety's public messaging, and it's another reminder that ALPR networks keep expanding with little public consent.
Our Take
Eric Moutsos is raising a flag that deserves attention: when a company whose entire business model depends on blanketing American streets with license plate cameras starts changing how it talks to the public, that's worth scrutinizing. We don't know Flock's exact wording without watching the full clip, but the pattern is familiar — soft PR language dressed up to make permanent, always-on surveillance infrastructure sound routine and uncontroversial.
That's the trick with ALPR rollouts generally. The messaging is calibrated for city councils and local news segments, not for the drivers whose daily movements get logged, stored, and shared across jurisdictions and, increasingly, with federal agencies. A 'message for the public' from a surveillance vendor is rarely a warning — it's usually a sales pitch wearing a safety costume.
Credit to Moutsos for putting a spotlight on it. If you want to see whether Flock cameras are already watching your own routes, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not just watch this fight from the sidelines, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Eric Moutsos, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.