Are you being tracked by Flock cameras? #privacy #scary #shorts
The short version: Grant Stinchfield's short asks the question every driver should be asking: yes, Flock cameras are almost certainly logging your daily routes.
Our Take
Grant Stinchfield packs the core problem into a quick-hit short: these aren't speed cameras or red-light cameras looking for a specific violation. Flock's ALPR network is a dragnet, scanning every plate that passes, timestamping it, and storing the location data regardless of whether you've done anything wrong. That distinction matters. You don't get pulled over and ticketed — you get quietly filed into a database that can reconstruct your movements over weeks or months.
The format is part of the message here. A 60-second short reaches people who will never read a city council agenda about a new camera contract, and that's exactly how this surveillance expands — one quiet procurement at a time, with little public debate. Videos like this do real work by making the abstract concrete: this isn't hypothetical, it's a camera that might already be bolted to a pole on your street.
If that question nags at you after watching, don't stop at wondering — check our camera map to see what's actually been deployed near you, and head to take-action for concrete steps if you want to push back on your local police department or city council.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Grant Stinchfield, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.