Flock's CEO Wants You to "Compromise" on Privacy. His House Is Blurred.
The short version: Shred Newz spotlights the hypocrisy of Flock's CEO preaching privacy 'compromise' to the public while reportedly shielding his own home from the same scrutiny.
Our Take
Credit to Shred Newz for catching the kind of quote that writes its own headline. A surveillance CEO going on national TV to tell Americans they need to 'compromise' on privacy is rich coming from someone who, by the video's account, keeps his own house blurred out. That's not a compromise — that's a one-way mirror, and it's the same asymmetry we see every time Flock expands its camera network: the company collects, stores, and shares your movements, while the people profiting from that data get to opt out for themselves.
This matters because 'compromise' language is how mass surveillance gets normalized. Nobody votes on it, nobody gets a real choice, and the cameras just keep multiplying in neighborhoods and small towns that never had a public debate about trading privacy for a vague promise of safety. If the people selling the system don't want their own comings and goings logged and sold to police departments, that tells you everything about what they think the trade-off is actually worth.
If you want to see how close this reach has gotten to your own street, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action guide has concrete steps for getting ALPRs on your city council's agenda.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Shred Newz, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.