Flock Cameras Capture 20 Billion Images Monthly #shorts
The short version: A short from Apex Media spotlights Flock Safety's jaw-dropping 20-billion-images-a-month scale, underscoring how normalized mass plate surveillance has become.
Our Take
Apex Media's short cuts straight to the number that should stop you cold: 20 billion images a month. That's not a typo or a one-off dragnet operation — it's the routine, baseline output of a private network of license plate readers scattered across neighborhoods, parking lots, and intersections all over the country. Credit to Apex Media for distilling the scale into a single stat that's easy to grasp and hard to shake.
What makes this number matter isn't just its size, it's what it represents: millions of ordinary people's movements, timestamped and logged, with no warrant and often no public notice that the camera was ever installed. Multiply one city's camera count by thousands of jurisdictions nationwide and you get a surveillance apparatus bigger than anything a single police department could build on its own — stitched together by a company selling access, not asking permission.
Numbers like this are exactly why we built our camera map — so you can see how close this dragnet actually is to your own front door instead of just imagining it in the abstract. If that 20-billion figure bothers you as much as it bothers us, head to take action and find out how to push back in your own community.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Apex Media, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.