Have You Been Flocked?Free Tool to Check!
The short version: KentuckyTee highlights a free tool claiming to check if your plate was scanned by Flock cameras, underscoring how normalized ALPR tracking has become.
Our Take
Credit to KentuckyTee | News Today for putting a spotlight on just how curious — and anxious — people have gotten about their own movements being logged. The fact that a tool like "Have I Been Flocked" can even exist and find an audience tells you everything about where we've landed: drivers now have to go hunting for proof that a private company's cameras photographed their plate as they drove to work or picked up their kid.
We'd urge some caution before plugging your plate into any third-party site, even a well-intentioned one. Flock's own network is opaque enough; handing your plate number to another outside tool means trusting yet another party with data about where you've been. The better first move is figuring out where these cameras physically are in your community, because that's the piece you can actually verify and organize around.
That's exactly why we built our camera map — a way to see Flock and other ALPR deployments near you without surrendering more personal data to find out. If what you see concerns you, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at city council meetings and beyond.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of KentuckyTee | News Today, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.