Your Car Could Be Tracked Without You Knowing 😳 (120,000+ Cameras) 🚗 #usa #facts #science #car #
The short version: Perdio Chico's short explainer on Flock's 120,000+ ALPR cameras is a good entry point, but the real story is what happens to that data after it's collected.
Our Take
Credit to Perdio Chico for putting a number on this — 120,000+ Flock cameras is a staggering footprint for a company that barely existed a decade ago, and most drivers have no idea they're driving past one, let alone that it's logging their plate, car color, dents, bumper stickers, and travel patterns into a searchable database.
The video mentions Flock's recent move to shrink default retention from 30 days to 7 and add tighter search auditing. That's a real concession, forced by mounting public pressure and lawsuits, but it's still a company policy, not a law. Retention periods, audit rules, and who gets access can all be changed again with zero input from the people being tracked. 'Trust us' isn't a privacy framework — it's a marketing line.
The bigger issue nobody solves by tweaking a slider is that this is a nationwide, networked surveillance system built without a public vote, and local police departments increasingly share access across state lines regardless of local law. Check our camera map to see what's near you, and if you want to actually push back, our take-action page has steps for making your city council or county actually debate this instead of rubber-stamping it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Perdio Chico, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.