Flock Safety CSO Claims Trying Combat Disinformation

Our Take

Credit to the channel Double Penetration for catching this one: Flock Safety's Chief Strategy Officer Rahul Sidhu is out there positioning the company as a guardian against "disinformation." That's a curious hill for a mass-surveillance vendor to plant a flag on. Flock doesn't just sell cameras, it increasingly wants to shape the conversation about what those cameras do, who's watching, and who gets to ask questions. When the company that profits from blanketing neighborhoods in automated license plate readers also wants to referee what counts as "true" information about itself, that's not a neutral PR move. It's narrative control dressed up as public service.

This matters because Flock's entire business model depends on communities not looking too closely. The more a town understands how these cameras work, how long the data is kept, who can query it, and how often it's wrong, the harder it becomes to justify the contracts. Calling inconvenient scrutiny "disinformation" is a classic move to delegitimize critics before they even finish their sentence. It's worth asking: who decides what's disinformation when the company doing the deciding is also the one selling the surveillance?

We'd rather people see the hardware for themselves than take any company's word for it, good or bad. Check our camera map to see what's actually deployed near you, and if you want to push back on secretive rollouts in your own town, our take-action page has concrete steps to get started.