Zuckerbery wants privacy
The short version: A YouTube creator highlights the irony of tech elites guarding their own privacy while building systems that erode everyone else's — a double standard that fuels the case against ALPR networks like Flock Safety.
Our Take
The channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency points out something that should make all of us pause: the same billionaires who helped normalize data harvesting and algorithmic tracking go to extraordinary lengths to shield their own homes, movements, and communications from public view. It's a pattern we see over and over — privacy for me, surveillance for thee. Credit to the creator for keeping that contradiction in front of an audience that might otherwise accept it as just 'how things work now.'
That double standard is exactly what's happening on American streets right now with automated license plate readers. Flock Safety cameras quietly log every vehicle that passes, building location histories on millions of ordinary people who never consented and have no say in how long that data is kept or who gets to query it. The people approving these contracts rarely have their own plates run through the same dragnet with the same scrutiny they apply to the rest of us.
If a tech mogul's demand for personal privacy strikes you as reasonable, ask why the same courtesy isn't extended to the person driving to a medical appointment, a protest, or a divorce attorney's office. Check our camera map to see what's tracking your own neighborhood, and head to take action if you think that imbalance needs correcting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.