Ring & Flock Terminate Partnership! #privacy #surveillance
The short version: Ring and Flock reportedly scrapped their camera-sharing integration, but the bigger story is how normalized these corporate-surveillance pipelines have become.
Our Take
Credit to Verified Privacy VPN for flagging this one: Ring and Flock Safety apparently pulled the plug on their integration, with the official line being that it was too resource-intensive to maintain. Maybe that's true. But it's worth remembering that this partnership was announced with plenty of fanfare about "community safety," and now it's quietly dying with a shrug. That's the pattern with surveillance tech rollouts — big promises up front, little accountability when they fizzle or fail.
Don't mistake this for a win against mass surveillance. Ring already hands footage to police through its own back channels, and Flock's ALPR network keeps expanding independent of any single doorbell-camera deal. One partnership ending doesn't shrink the overall dragnet — it just means the companies found a different org chart for the same data flows. The real fight isn't about which brands are talking to each other; it's about whether your plate and your face get logged at all, by anyone.
If you want to see how far this network already reaches in your area, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has concrete steps for your city council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net), published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.