WHAT THE FLOCK? 📸 | Flock Cameras, Privacy & Surveillance | Original Song
The short version: A songwriter turns Flock Safety's camera sprawl into catchy protest music, proving ALPR fatigue has gone mainstream.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Purely Positive Place took a subject usually buried in city council minutes and turned it into something people will actually hum. "WHAT THE FLOCK?" is satire with teeth — using an original song to needle the absurdity of a license plate reader on every corner logging every car, every day, with almost no public debate before installation. That a creator felt compelled to write a protest tune about it says something about how far this technology has crept into daily life without most residents ever voting on it.
Music like this matters because it does what spreadsheets and policy memos can't: it makes the dread of constant tracking feel visceral. Flock's pitch is always "solve more crime," but the quiet reality is a growing database of everyone's movements, shared across agencies and sometimes companies, with retention rules that vary by jurisdiction and oversight that's often an afterthought. A catchy chorus won't fix that, but it can get more people asking who's watching and why.
If this song got under your skin, channel it into something concrete. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your own streets, then head to take-action for ways to push your city council toward transparency and real limits on this surveillance creep.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Purely Positive Place, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.