Flock Safety Cameras Are Tracking America — Why People Are Destroying Them

Our Take

The File On You lays out something we've been tracking for a while: ordinary people are done asking nicely and are taking matters into their own hands, whether that's cutting camera cables, filing ballot initiatives, or forcing city councils to suspend contracts. That's not vandalism in a vacuum — it's a predictable reaction to a system that was rolled out with zero public debate in most towns and now sits there quietly building a searchable history of everywhere your car has been.

The detail that should worry everyone, vandal or not, is the internal pitch to extend this dragnet to roughly 350,000 rideshare and delivery dash cams. It never happened, but the fact that it was even floated tells you the business model isn't "catch stolen cars at a few intersections." It's "put a camera on every moving vehicle in America and sell access to the database." Fixed poles were never the ceiling, they were the pilot program.

Credit to The File On You for pulling together the police-misuse allegations and data-sharing questions in one place instead of letting Flock control the narrative with press-release talking points. If you want to see whether this is already sitting on your street, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back through your city council instead of a pair of wire cutters, our take-action page has the playbook.