Congress Invited Four Surveillance CEOs to Testify. None of Them Showed Up. #surveillance #privacy
The short version: A Senate subcommittee called in four ALPR surveillance CEOs to answer for their camera networks, and all four skipped town, as creator Mading Thok reports.
Our Take
Mading Thok's video lays out a telling moment: Congress finally summons the executives behind the AI camera networks blanketing American roads, and not one of them bothers to show up. That's not an accident, it's a strategy. When your entire business model depends on cities quietly signing contracts and drivers never asking questions, the last thing you want is a public hearing where someone under oath has to explain how the data gets used, who it's shared with, and why.
This fits the pattern we've tracked for a while now. Companies like Flock Safety have built an empire on being everywhere and accountable to no one, leaning on local police departments to do the PR work while the vendors themselves stay out of the spotlight. A no-show at a Senate subcommittee isn't just bad optics, it's a signal that these companies know their practices don't hold up well to public scrutiny, and they'd rather eat the headline than answer the questions.
If elected officials can't get straight answers from the people running this infrastructure, it falls to the rest of us to document what's actually out there. Check our camera map to see what's been deployed near you, and if you want to push back on a system that would rather dodge Congress than explain itself, head to our take-action page for next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Mading Thok, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.