Flock Cameras Watch Our Every Move, This Rockstar is FIGHTING BACK
The short version: TYT Sports' Rick Strom covers Josh Homme's public callout of Flock ALPR surveillance, adding a rare celebrity voice to a fight regular Americans have been waging for years.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Rick Strom and TYT Sports are putting a spotlight on something we've been screaming about since day one — that a rock star noticing his license plate is being logged block by block isn't paranoia, it's Tuesday in most American cities now. Josh Homme joining journalists and everyday residents in calling out Flock Safety cameras matters because celebrity attention moves the needle on stories that city councils would rather nobody ask about.
The bigger point buried in this video is the one we keep hammering: this isn't a partisan issue and it isn't about any one person's fame. It's about a private company building a searchable, retroactive map of where every driver has been, sold to police departments with almost no public debate about retention, access, or abuse. When a Queens of the Stone Age frontman and a random commuter in your town are equally trackable, that's the whole point of mass surveillance infrastructure — it doesn't discriminate, and it doesn't ask permission.
If this video makes you want to know whether a Flock camera is already watching your street, check our camera map before you assume it's someone else's problem. And if you're ready to do more than watch, our take-action page has real steps for pushing back at the local level, where these fights are actually won or lost.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of TYT Sports, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.