Flock Safety Creeps
The short version: Tracked News reports Flock Safety employees allegedly misused ALPR access to spy on women and children, exposing the human risk behind 'trust us' surveillance networks.
Our Take
Tracked News is reporting that Flock Safety employees may have broken the company's own internal rules by using access to license plate reader data to track women and children. We haven't independently verified every detail, but the allegations land exactly where critics of this technology have been pointing for years: the danger was never just the cameras, it's the people who get to look through them.
Flock has built its brand on a promise of guardrails — audit logs, "authorized use only" policies, law enforcement partnerships that supposedly keep the system honest. But a database is only as trustworthy as the humans with login credentials, and insider misuse is notoriously hard to catch until someone blows the whistle. When a surveillance network can track anyone's movements across a city, curiosity, jealousy, or malice don't need a warrant — just an employee badge.
This is why we keep pushing people to find out whether these cameras are watching their own neighborhood. Credit to Tracked News for digging into this story; go check out our camera map to see what's near you, and visit take action if you want to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your community.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Tracked News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.