Flock Cameras Is Everywhere Beware Of The Eye In The Sky

Our Take

Creator Hassan Campbell's video title says it plainly: the eye in the sky is everywhere. He's not wrong. Flock Safety has spread its license plate readers into thousands of neighborhoods, city intersections, and shopping center entrances, often with little public debate before installation. Most drivers have no idea they're being logged, timestamped, and tracked every time they pass one of these poles.

We can't verify every claim in a video description that also namedrops Elon Musk and Bill Gates, and we're not going to pretend this is an investigative deep-dive. But the core instinct behind the video — a regular person noticing the cameras and feeling uneasy about it — is exactly the reaction this technology deserves. Flock's pitch is public safety, but the infrastructure doesn't just catch the occasional stolen car. It builds a permanent, searchable record of where everyone's vehicle goes, available to police departments and increasingly shared across jurisdiction lines with minimal oversight.

If a video like this makes you start noticing poles you never clocked before, that's the point of vigilance. Check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and visit take-action if you want to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your own town.