Flock Cameras Are Everywhere. Who’s Watching You? | Amanpour and Company
The short version: Amanpour and Company puts a number on Flock's reach — 1.6 million photos from one camera in 21 days — and asks who's actually watching.
Our Take
When a national news program with Amanpour's reach starts asking "who's watching you," it means the Flock story has finally broken out of local news cycles and privacy newsletters. The number at the center of this segment — 1.6 million photos from a single camera in three weeks — is the kind of math most city councils never do before they sign a Flock contract. Multiply that by the thousands of cameras now bolted to poles across the country and you get a rolling, searchable record of nearly everyone's movements, built without a warrant and often without residents ever voting on it.
What makes this coverage matter isn't just the scale, it's the credit line: an independent investigation did the digging that got a major outlet to pay attention. That's the model. Local reporters, records requests, and ordinary people asking their police departments blunt questions are how this system gets exposed one camera at a time. Flock and its customers would rather you not know how many photos are being taken, who has access to them, or how long they sit in a database waiting to be queried by another agency states away.
If a segment like this makes you wonder whether there's a camera doing the same thing on your street, there's an easy way to check — head over to our camera map and see what's already been documented near you. And if you want to do more than watch, our take-action page has the tools to push back at the next council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Amanpour and Company, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.