Government doesn't believe your health data should be private!
The short version: A video from Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency warns that government and corporate interests treat health data as fair game, a mindset that mirrors how license plate data gets hoovered up without consent.
Our Take
The channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency makes a point that should sound familiar to anyone tracking ALPR sprawl: once an agency or a vendor decides your data is useful, 'privacy' becomes a negotiable afterthought. Swap 'health records' for 'your daily driving patterns' and you've basically described how Flock Safety's camera network operates — scanning plates by the millions, building location histories on ordinary people who've committed no crime, and sharing that trove with police departments, federal agencies, and sometimes private actors with little public oversight.
The common thread is a bureaucratic shrug: data gets collected first, and the justification for why it's fine gets worked out later, if ever. Whether it's health records or your car's movements past a gas station camera, the pattern is the same — convenience and 'safety' framing used to paper over a genuine erosion of the right to go about your life without a permanent digital trail.
We'd rather people know what's actually watching them. Check our camera map to see if Flock or similar ALPR systems are active near you, and if you want to push back, our take-action guide has concrete steps for raising this with local officials.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.