Flock hypocrisy

Our Take

Creator Xy's video, simply titled "Flock hypocrisy," doesn't need much more than that headline to land. Anyone who's followed Flock Safety's expansion knows the pattern: a company built on scanning your plate, tracking your movements, and selling that data access to police departments nationwide, all while insisting it's the privacy-conscious choice. We don't know the exact receipts Xy is pulling in this video, but the premise tracks with what we've documented for months — the gap between Flock's PR about "protecting communities" and the reality of a surveillance dragnet with minimal oversight.

This is exactly the kind of gap that matters. When a company positions itself as the responsible alternative to shadier surveillance vendors, but still hoovers up location data on every driver who passes a camera, the hypocrisy isn't a minor branding issue — it's the whole ballgame. Marketing language about "public safety" doesn't change the fact that these cameras create a permanent, searchable record of where you go, who you see, and how often. Independent creators calling that out, camera by camera and claim by claim, is part of how accountability actually happens.

If this video gets you looking twice at the ALPR on your corner, good — that's the point. Check our camera map to see what's already watching in your area, and head to our take-action page if you want to push back on your city council or police department.