How drivers bypass flock cameras
The short version: The Lab Tech Show breaks down how Flock is fusing Bluetooth device signatures with plate reads, and why routing around cameras beats gimmicky covers.
Our Take
Credit to The Lab Tech Show for laying out something we've been warning about for a while: Flock's system isn't just cameras anymore. If it's true that Bluetooth MAC addresses from phones, smartwatches, and AirPods are getting matched to vehicles, that's a quiet but massive escalation. A plate is a plate, but a device fingerprint follows you into stores, sidewalks, and other networks entirely outside the car. That's the difference between tracking a vehicle and tracking a person.
The video's other point is just as important — tinted covers and sprays are theater. Infrared sensors see through that nonsense, and Flock knows it. The only real options right now are either legal/political pressure to rip these systems out, or practical avoidance: knowing exactly where the intersections are and routing around them. That's the whole reason tools like dontgetflocked.com exist, and it's the same idea behind our own camera map — crowdsourced, growing, and free to use.
Avoidance maps are a stopgap, not a solution. The real fix is forcing cities to answer for these contracts in public. If this video got you thinking about what's logging your daily drive, use that energy — check our take-action page and show up to the next city council meeting before this tech quietly expands again.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Lab Tech Show, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.