Flock Safety Tech: Solving Crimes & Saving Lives #shorts
The short version: Security News Today's short praises Flock's crime-solving stats, but glosses over the billions of plates scanned monthly without consent.
Our Take
Security News Today's quick-hit video packages Flock Safety the way the company packages itself: a tidy success story about AI cameras cracking cases. What the clip doesn't dwell on is the scale buried in its own description — over 100,000 cameras nationwide logging billions of vehicle movements a month, almost always without the driver ever knowing they were scanned. That's not a neighborhood watch tool, that's a rolling national database of where you drive, when, and how often.
"Solving crimes" is the pitch every surveillance vendor makes, and it's true often enough to be persuasive. But the tradeoff rarely gets named: a system built to catch a handful of bad actors ends up cataloguing everyone else's daily life by default. No warrant, no notice, no real opt-out — just a camera on a pole and a database somewhere logging your plate.
We credit Security News Today for putting Flock in front of more eyes, because the more people know these cameras exist, the more they'll ask who's watching the watchers. Check our map to see what's already deployed near you, and if you want to push back, our take-action guide has concrete steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Security News Today, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.