Canada is becoming a totalitarian state
The short version: A Canadian surveillance-watch channel warns of creeping authoritarianism; we can't verify every claim, but the underlying alarm about unchecked tracking tech applies squarely to the U.S. ALPR boom.
Our Take
This video comes from a channel that's built its whole identity around flagging every thread of mass surveillance, digital ID, and digital currency creep — and this time the lens is on Canada. We can't vouch for every claim in a 400-video catalog built on broad pattern-spotting, and 'totalitarian state' is a big label to hang on any democracy. But strip away the rhetoric and the core worry — that governments and private tech partners are normalizing constant tracking of ordinary people with little public debate — is exactly the terrain we cover here, just south of the border.
Canada's conversations about facial recognition, digital ID schemes, and license plate surveillance aren't happening in a vacuum. The same vendors, the same 'public safety' pitch, and the same mission creep show up in American cities where Flock Safety cameras get installed quietly, expand their retention windows, and get shared across agencies with minimal oversight. Whether the alarm is coming from Ottawa or from a small-town city council meeting in the U.S., the pattern is the same: infrastructure built for one narrow purpose becomes the backbone for something much larger and harder to roll back.
We'll leave the geopolitics to channels like this one and keep doing what we do: documenting where these cameras actually are. Check the map to see what's been deployed near you, and if you want to push back on your local council or police department, our take-action page has concrete steps to get started.
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.