Flock Cameras Exposed: Citizens Fight Back Against Surveillance! #shorts
The short version: A short from Dave Linthicum Is Not AI captures everyday citizens confronting Flock cameras over privacy fears and murky data-sharing practices.
Our Take
It's a short clip, but it lands on the exact nerve that keeps this fight alive: ordinary people noticing a camera on their street corner and asking who's watching, who's storing it, and who else gets to see it. Dave Linthicum Is Not AI doesn't need a ten-minute investigation to make the point — the unease in these citizens' reactions says plenty about how little consent went into blanketing neighborhoods with ALPR hardware.
That gut reaction of "wait, what is this thing and why is it here" is exactly the instinct we want more people to have. Flock Safety's pitch is always public safety, but the backend reality is a nationwide network of scanned plates, timestamps, and locations that can be queried, shared across agencies, and retained far longer than most residents assume. A camera bolted to a pole outside your house isn't a neutral object — it's a data collection point feeding a system most people never voted on.
If this short made you wonder whether there's one of these cameras near you, stop wondering and check the map. And if you're ready to do something with that unease besides feel it, our take action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the city council level, where these contracts actually get approved or killed.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Dave Linthicum Is Not AI, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.