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Flock Cameras: Tracking Your Every Move? #shorts

STS Technologies LLC · 2 weeks ago

The short version: STS Technologies' short video distills the core problem with Flock Safety cameras: they quietly log every passing vehicle, building location trails out of ordinary driving.

Our Take

STS Technologies LLC keeps it brief in this #shorts clip, but the point lands: Flock's ALPR network isn't just watching for stolen cars, it's logging plates, timestamps, and locations for everyone who drives past, whether or not they're suspected of anything. That's the uncomfortable truth these cameras keep proving — mass collection first, justification second.

The video comes from a company that also sells anti-ALPR gear, so take the pitch with a grain of salt, but the underlying concern is real and well documented across the country. When a single company's camera network can reconstruct where you've been over weeks or months, the question isn't whether the tech works — it's who gets to use that record, for how long, and with what oversight. Most communities never got a real vote on that.

If you want to see how far this has spread near you, check our camera map, and if you'd rather push back than just worry, our take-action guide has concrete steps for raising it with local officials.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of STS Technologies LLC, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.