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The short version: The Lab Tech Show mostly covers Canva and app tips, but its quick mention of grocery store "surveillance pricing" is a reminder that corporate data tracking and license plate surveillance both feed the same profit-driven data economy.
Our Take
This episode from The Lab Tech Show, hosted by @IAMTALLBOY, is mostly a grab-bag of consumer tech tips — Canva design tricks from guest Bri, new iOS 26 features, and Threads DMs. It's not an ALPR story, and we're not going to pretend it is. But the segment on "surveillance pricing" at grocery stores is worth pausing on, because it points to the same underlying problem we track every day: companies quietly building profiles on ordinary people and monetizing their movements and habits without clear consent.
Grocery loyalty apps tracking your purchases and license plate readers tracking your drives are different technologies, but they rhyme. Both normalize the idea that your daily life is a data source to be harvested first and explained later, if at all. Once people get comfortable with one form of passive tracking, it gets easier to wave through the next one — including the Flock Safety cameras popping up on neighborhood streets and quietly logging every vehicle that passes.
If a casual mention of "surveillance pricing" catches your attention, it's worth asking what other systems are watching you that you haven't been told about. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and visit our take-action page if you want to push back on surveillance creeping into your own community.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Lab Tech Show, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.