Lets confuse Flock Cameras

Our Take

By Any Memes built its name on car and truck culture content, so a video titled "Let's confuse Flock Cameras" is a sign of how far the Flock backlash has spread. This isn't a privacy nonprofit or a civil liberties lawyer making the case against ALPRs — it's a meme channel, which tells you the frustration with these cameras has gone mainstream enough to be a punchline.

We can't verify specific methods shown in the video, and we're not going to pretend we watched a script we didn't write. What we can say is that the underlying grievance is legitimate: thousands of Flock cameras now log plate, location, and timestamp data on ordinary drivers who've done nothing wrong, feeding a searchable database that police departments and sometimes private actors can query without a warrant. Jokes about "confusing" the cameras are really jokes about a system that was never built with consent in mind.

Humor is one way people process discomfort with surveillance they didn't ask for and can't opt out of. If this video gets you thinking harder about who's reading your plate and why, channel that curiosity into something concrete: check our camera map to see what's logging plates near you, and visit take action for real steps — public records requests, city council meetings, local organizing — that do more than confuse a camera for a day.