Flock Cameras Are Tracking Your Every Move (Now That I Have Your Attention)

Our Take

Credit where it's due: Cory Salisbury knows a good headline when he sees one. "Flock cameras are tracking your every move" is a hook, and then the video pivots to promoting a free 30-minute class on something else entirely. That bait-and-switch is a little grating if you came for substance on ALPRs, but it's also a useful data point — even outside the privacy and civil-liberties world, people now recognize "Flock" as shorthand for mass surveillance. That's not nothing.

It also says something uncomfortable: the Flock story has become so widely known that it's being used as clickbait for completely unrelated content. That's a double-edged sword. On one hand, awareness is spreading — good. On the other, the actual substance (how these cameras work, who's buying them, how your plate data moves between agencies and companies) gets flattened into a one-liner used to juice a thumbnail. The real story is less about being "tracked" in some abstract sense and more about the specific, local, often secretive expansion of ALPR networks into neighborhoods that never got a real public debate about it.

If this video got your attention even for the wrong reasons, use it. Check our map to see if Flock cameras are already logging plates near you, and head to take-action for concrete steps if you want your city council or sheriff's office to actually answer for these systems instead of just hoping nobody asks.