They’re Using AI Cameras To Track Everywhere You Go
The short version: The 700 Club's dive into the 94,000+ ALPR cameras blanketing America shows mass location tracking has gone mainstream — and bipartisan alarm is finally catching up to the tech.
Our Take
When a program like The 700 Club starts covering automated license plate readers, it's a sign this issue has broken out of the privacy-advocate bubble and into the mainstream. Their segment puts a number on what we've been tracking for a while: tens of thousands of these cameras, mostly made by Flock Safety, now quietly log the movements of ordinary drivers who've never been suspected of anything. That's not a hypothetical slippery slope — it's the current operating reality in thousands of towns across the country.
What makes this coverage notable is the audience it reaches. Concerns about unchecked surveillance infrastructure aren't a left-or-right issue; they're an everyone issue, because the database doesn't care about your politics — it just cares where your car has been. Once that data exists, it can be queried, shared, subpoenaed, or breached, and the people it was never meant to target end up in the net too.
If this kind of reporting makes you want to know what's actually watching your own neighborhood, check our camera map to see documented ALPR locations near you, and visit our take-action page for concrete steps to push back at the local level. Credit to The 700 Club for putting this in front of a new audience — the more people who understand how normalized this tracking has become, the better the odds of reining it in.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The 700 Club, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.