Flock Safety 120,000 Cameras Are Watching Your Car
The short version: RedLightNews's short doubles down on the scale of Flock Safety's ALPR network, and the number alone should worry anyone who values freedom of movement.
Our Take
RedLightNews keeps their format tight — a quick hit of a number, 120,000 cameras, and the unsettling reality that your daily commute is being logged by a private company's network before local police ever ask a judge for a warrant. Credit to them for putting a scale figure in front of an audience that scrolls past most surveillance stories without a second thought. That's exactly the kind of casual awareness this fight needs more of.
What gets lost in a 60-second short, and what we harp on constantly, is that this isn't a government system with oversight built in. It's a subscription product sold to police departments, HOAs, and private businesses, stitching together a de facto national vehicle tracking grid with almost no uniform rules on retention, access, or abuse. One camera on your street feels local. A hundred and twenty thousand of them networked together is a different animal entirely — it's the ability to reconstruct where a car has been for weeks, tied to a database very few residents ever voted to fund or approve.
If a video like this makes you wonder whether there's a Flock camera near you, stop wondering and check our camera map. And if you find one, don't just shrug — our take action page walks you through how to push back at the city council level, where these contracts actually get approved.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of RedLightNews, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.