The Drive’s Joel Feder. Only on That Car Show podcast. #flock #flockcameras #flocksafety
The short version: A car-culture podcast brings Flock Safety ALPRs to a new audience, proof that plate-reader surveillance has outgrown the privacy-wonk bubble.
Our Take
When outlets like That Car Show sit down with The Drive's Joel Feder to talk Flock cameras, it's a sign of how far this conversation has traveled. ALPR surveillance used to be a niche worry for civil liberties nerds and policy reporters. Now it's dinner-table talk for gearheads who just want to drive without being logged block by block. That shift matters more than any single clip — it means the audience for pushback is growing.
We don't have the full transcript here, and we're not going to pretend we do. But the broader context is familiar: Flock's network has quietly become one of the largest privately-run surveillance systems in the country, hoovering up plate scans, timestamps, and locations on ordinary drivers who've done nothing wrong, then sharing that data with police departments and federal agencies with little public oversight. A car podcast asking hard questions about that is a good thing, whatever angle they take.
Credit to That Car Show and Joel Feder for putting Flock in front of people who might never read a privacy newsletter. If this clip gets you curious about what's actually watching your street, check our camera map to see what's nearby, and visit take action for concrete steps to push back locally.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of That Car Show, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.