Palantir + Flock AI: "We Could Be The Targets" | Julian Dorey Podcast #482 #juliandorey #viral

Our Take

Julian Dorey's conversation on his podcast (#482) puts a finger on something we've been saying for a while: Flock Safety's camera network was never just about reading plates. Once you start fusing automated plate reads with satellite imagery, radar, and other AI-driven data streams — the kind of fusion Palantir has built a business around — you're not looking at a neighborhood watch tool anymore. You're looking at infrastructure that can track, profile, and potentially target people at scale, with almost none of the courtroom guardrails we'd expect for that kind of power.

We can't verify every technical claim in the episode, and we're not going to pretend we have inside knowledge of Palantir's roadmap. But the underlying worry is legitimate and worth sitting with: these systems are built quietly, sold to local police departments as crime-fighting tools, and scaled nationally before most residents even know the cameras exist on their street. Data fusion only makes that opacity more dangerous, because it means your location history doesn't stay siloed — it can be cross-referenced against other feeds in ways most city councils never debated or approved.

Credit to Julian Dorey for pushing this conversation into the mainstream. Our job is to make the surveillance visible on the ground. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your routes, and head to take action if you want to push back before fusion like this becomes the default.