DeFlocking Starts at Home
The short version: Resistance Rabbit argues that fighting Flock starts with your own doorbell, urging viewers to ditch Ring for cameras that don't funnel footage to police networks.
Our Take
Resistance Rabbit makes a point we don't say enough: the surveillance state doesn't start with a police department buying a Flock Safety ALPR camera, it starts with the consumer electronics we willingly bolt to our own front doors. Ring's long-standing relationships with law enforcement, including features that let police request footage directly from homeowners, mean a lot of "smart home security" is really just crowdsourced surveillance infrastructure. Pairing that with a neighborhood full of Flock cameras turns every street into a tracking grid, built partly with gear people bought to feel safer.
We can't verify every technical claim in the video, but the underlying argument holds up: individual choices about which cameras we buy and how we configure them matter in aggregate. Swapping out a cloud-tied, police-integrated doorbell cam for one that keeps footage local and off third-party servers is a small, concrete way to deny the surveillance dragnet another data point, even if it won't single-handedly dismantle it.
Credit to Resistance Rabbit for connecting the dots between corporate and government surveillance in a way viewers can act on immediately. If you want to see how far that dragnet already reaches in your own area, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Resistance Rabbit, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.