Flock Safety Is Getting Creepy
The short version: Creator dzuma amplifies Benn Jordan's warning that Flock Safety's ALPR network is sliding from traffic enforcement into a de facto nationwide tracking system.
Our Take
When a channel titled simply "dzuma" picks up Benn Jordan's reporting and calls it creepy, it's worth paying attention. The throughline in both videos is the same one we've been hammering on for months: Flock Safety didn't just sell towns a better way to catch stolen cars, it built a quietly expanding, privately run surveillance backbone that logs where millions of ordinary people drive, when, and how often — with almost no public oversight of who gets to query that data or why.
What makes this creepy isn't one smoking-gun feature, it's the accumulation. Thousands of cameras, data-sharing agreements that cross city and state lines, and a company culture that treats "more cameras, more data" as an unambiguous public good. Dzuma and Jordan are doing the work of translating that scale into something people can actually picture, which matters because most residents have no idea a camera near their house exists, let alone who can pull its logs.
That's exactly the gap we try to close. Check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back on a system that was installed without a real public conversation, our take-action page has concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of dzuma, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.