'Who’s Watching?': Senate Examines Flock Safety’s AI Network; Senators Big Alarm | US News
The short version: Times of India covers senators grilling Flock Safety over its AI camera network, echoing privacy fears we've been flagging for months.
Our Take
When a national news outlet like Times of India is running segments titled "Who's Watching?" about Flock Safety, you know this issue has escaped the privacy-advocate bubble. Credit to their team for putting the constitutional questions in front of a mainstream audience: senators are now openly asking why a private company's camera network can track Americans' movements without a warrant, and why local police departments signed up for it with so little public debate.
This is exactly the dynamic we've been tracking — a surveillance system that grew nationwide through quiet city council votes and vendor contracts, not through any real legislative check. It's encouraging to see federal lawmakers finally asking who holds the data, who can query it, and what happens when ICE, bounty hunters, or an ex-cop with a grudge gets access. Those are the right questions. The harder part is whether any resulting oversight has teeth, or just becomes another hearing that fades once the cameras keep going up.
If you want to see whether this is already happening in your town, check our camera map before assuming it's someone else's problem. And if your city council hasn't had this conversation yet, our take-action page has what you need to force it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Times Of India, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.