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Our Take

The channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency doesn't mince words with this one, and whatever you think of the title's bluntness, the underlying anger points at something real: the growing pipeline between local surveillance infrastructure and federal immigration enforcement. We're not going to pretend we watched a transcript we didn't see, but the broader point tracks with what we've documented for months — ALPR data collected by local police departments has a well-worn habit of ending up in the hands of agencies like ICE, often without the knowledge or consent of the city councils who approved the cameras in the first place.

This is the core problem with Flock Safety's model. Departments are sold on 'solving car break-ins' or 'finding stolen vehicles,' but once that plate data sits in a searchable, networked database, it becomes available to any agency with access — including federal immigration enforcement, regardless of your local sanctuary-city ordinance or city council's stated intentions. The creator's frustration here is aimed at accountability, and that's a fight we take seriously: who authorized the data sharing, who audited it, and who's answering for it when it's abused.

If you want to know whether this is happening in your own backyard, check our camera map to see what's already been deployed near you, and head to our take-action page for concrete steps to push back at the local level before the surveillance network gets bigger than any single department can control.