CEO of flock camera demad his house be blurred on google @SpencerHakimian #spencerhakimian #news
The short version: Clip via Spencer Hakimian claims Flock Safety's CEO wanted his own house blurred on Google Maps — a glaring double standard for a man selling mass license-plate tracking to the public.
Our Take
Credit to Spencer Clipping for surfacing this clip, because the irony practically writes itself. If it's true that the man running the company blanketing American streets with license-plate cameras wants his own home scrubbed from Google Maps, that's not a scandal so much as a confession. Privacy is apparently a premium good — fine for the CEO, optional for everyone else whose daily movements get logged, stored, and shared with police departments nationwide.
This is the core hypocrisy that keeps showing up in the ALPR industry: the people building the surveillance infrastructure guard their own location data fiercely while marketing the exact opposite trade-off to the public as 'safety.' You don't get to argue that constant location tracking is no big deal for ordinary drivers and then demand your own house get blurred out because you value your privacy. Either it matters or it doesn't.
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This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Spencer Clipping, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.