ACLU Attorney: Flock Cameras Already Track Gun Stores, Pregnancy Centers

Our Take

Credit to CISO Marketplace for surfacing this clip of ACLU testimony before Congress, because it says the quiet part out loud: Flock's camera network doesn't care about your politics. The same database that a prosecutor might use to track a stolen car can just as easily be queried to see who's been driving to a gun range, a firearms dealer, or a reproductive health clinic. That's not a hypothetical edge case — it's the base functionality of a system built to log every plate, every time, everywhere, and keep the data around for anyone with access to search.

What makes this testimony land is that it cuts across the usual political lines. Gun owners worried about registries and abortion patients worried about criminalization are, in this system, facing the exact same exposure: a permanent, searchable record of their movements that was never approved by a court, a warrant, or in most cases even a public vote. When an ACLU attorney is telling lawmakers there are 'no meaningful legal curbs,' that's confirmation this isn't fringe alarmism — it's a structural gap in how these networks were deployed in the first place.

This is exactly why we built the map — so people can see for themselves how dense this coverage already is in their own community, regardless of which side of the aisle they're on. If your town hasn't had a public debate about who can query this data and why, that conversation is overdue. Start at take action and push your local officials to answer for it.