Is Flock Selling Your Surveillance Footage?
The short version: Razmig's satirical 'iFlock marketplace' bit is a joke, but it lands because Flock's real data-sharing network already blurs the line between public safety tool and surveillance commodity.
Our Take
Razmig's video imagines Flock Safety launching "iFlock," a royalty-free marketplace for your license plate data. It's satire, and we're crediting the creator for the laugh — but like most good satire, it works because it's not that far from the truth. Flock doesn't sell footage on a storefront, but it has built a sprawling network where thousands of police departments and private HOAs share plate-read data across jurisdictions, often with minimal oversight on who queries what and why.
That's the real story hiding behind the joke: a privately run company sitting in the middle of a de facto national vehicle-tracking system, with local agencies opting into data-sharing agreements most residents never see or vote on. Whether or not Flock ever monetizes that data directly, the infrastructure for abuse — mission creep, data breaches, warrantless tracking — is already in place today, running on cameras bolted to street poles in your own neighborhood.
If you want to see how close this network already is to you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on surveillance creeping into your town, visit our take-action page for next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Razmig, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.