deflock.org
The short version: A creator called GRIMONITION spotlights deflock.org, the crowdsourced map tracking Flock Safety ALPR cameras, putting a spotlight on how widespread this surveillance has become.
Our Take
We always welcome more eyes on this issue, and credit to GRIMONITION for pointing a wider audience toward deflock.org. Without a full transcript to go on, we'll keep our take high-level: the core value of a project like this is simple. Most people have no idea how many automated license plate readers are bolted to poles in their own neighborhood, quietly logging every car that passes, until someone shows them a map.
That's the real power of crowdsourced documentation. Flock Safety and similar vendors don't publish comprehensive public lists of camera locations, so communities are left to do the legwork themselves, camera by camera, intersection by intersection. Videos that amplify this kind of mapping effort do real work: they turn an abstract privacy concern into something concrete you can see on a screen, right down to your own street.
If this video got you curious about what's actually watching your car, don't stop at curiosity. Check our map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back against unchecked ALPR expansion in your city or county, our take-action page has concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of GRIMONITION, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.