You're A Product! Flock Tech Shares Your Data With Insurers #shorts
The short version: Double Daves Podcast raises a sharp question: if Flock's ALPR network monetizes your driving patterns for insurers, you're not the customer — you're the inventory.
Our Take
Double Daves Podcast is zeroing in on something we think more people need to say out loud: license plate reader networks don't just serve police departments, they create a data asset that can be packaged, licensed, and sold. Once your plate, location, and travel patterns exist in a corporate database, the question stops being 'is this helping solve crimes' and becomes 'who else gets to profit from knowing where I drive.' Insurers are an obvious customer — driving behavior is literally their business model.
We can't confirm the specifics of any particular data-sharing deal from a short video, and we're not going to repeat claims we can't verify. But the underlying dynamic is exactly what critics of Flock Safety have been warning about for years: a surveillance system marketed as a public safety tool quietly becomes a commercial product, with your movements as the raw material. Once that infrastructure exists, mission creep isn't a hypothetical — it's the default outcome unless communities push back on contracts, retention policies, and third-party access before they're signed.
Credit to Double Daves Podcast for putting this in front of a wider audience. If you want to see whether one of these cameras is already clocking your commute, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait to find out the hard way, our take-action guide has concrete steps for pushing back at the city council level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Double Daves Podcast, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.