Privacy is precious. If the man who profits from tracking your car changes his plates daily, what do

Our Take

If the claim in this video holds up, it's the kind of detail that tells you everything you need to know about how the people profiting from ALPR networks actually feel about being watched themselves. You don't rotate your plates daily because you're paranoid for no reason — you do it because you understand, better than almost anyone, exactly how powerful and invasive that data trail becomes once it's stitched together across thousands of cameras.

That's the core problem with systems like Flock Safety's: they're sold to city councils and police departments as neutral tools for solving crime, but the people building them clearly grasp that constant location tracking is a serious privacy exposure — serious enough to want out of it personally. The rest of us don't get that opt-out. Our plates, and by extension our daily movements, get logged, stored, and shared with whoever has access to the network, often with minimal oversight and no real consent.

Credit to the channel "Yes!" for putting a spotlight on this contradiction. It's a good reminder that the fight against mass surveillance isn't abstract — it's about who gets privacy and who doesn't. Check our camera map to see what's been deployed near you, and visit take-action if you want to push back.