Hawley EXPOSES Flock’s 20-Billion-Image AI Surveillance Network

Our Take

Credit to Mrs. Dave the Lawyer for pulling together a hearing that deserves way more attention than it got. When a sitting senator is chairing a Judiciary Committee session on a private company's camera network, and that company doesn't even bother to show up, that tells you something about how unaccountable this system has become. Twenty billion vehicle images a month isn't a rounding error — it's a real-time map of where every one of us drives, parks, and lives, built without warrants or meaningful oversight.

The testimony is the part that should stick with you. A woman spending 13 days in jail after Flock data got tangled up in a bad investigation isn't a hypothetical harm — it's exactly the kind of outcome critics have been warning about since these cameras started going up on street corners nationwide. A sheriff walking away from the system and civil liberties groups like the ACLU and the Institute for Justice laying out the constitutional problems in plain terms adds up to a pretty damning picture, even before you get to the cybersecurity concerns raised about how exposed this data might be.

This is why we keep tracking where these cameras are going in. If a network this size can misfire badly enough to put someone behind bars for nearly two weeks, the public has a right to know it's there. Check our camera map to see what's near you, and if you want to push back, our take-action page has concrete steps for making noise at the local level.